BEHIND THE NEWS Mr. Sobell's account, which coincided with the release of most grand jury testimony in the famous case, affirmed what may historians had come to think: that prosecutors pressed dubious charges against Ethel Rosenberg in the hope that her husband would confess and cooperate to spare her.
As they reflect upon what they presumably know, however, they discover that it is much less secure than they realized, and indeed they come to think that many of what had been their firmest beliefs are dubious or even false.
"We think that's a little dubious". Alexandra Lahav, a law professor at the University of Connecticut who specializes in class actions and complex litigation, said that's a legitimate concern.
Dubious "sources" seem to think so, according to the Daily Mail -- but the same "sources" report that the Miley cover has been called off.
Partly to think about whether the stories we tell about our past are any less dubious.
If conspicuous consumption is morally dubious when it substitutes for sacrifices on behalf of strangers, as most good progressives seem to think, why isn't it morally dubious when it substitutes for the more intimate form of sacrifice that made all of our lives possible in the first place?
The question for analysts is whether the current spread between the cost of equity and the cost of dubious debt is sustainable.You might think that corporate debt should yield less than shares because debt has a higher place in the capital structure than common stock.
If you listen to the Fed's critics, you'd think that investors and lenders and borrowers are back to their reckless ways, pouring money into dubious investments.
"But I will tell you that I think that many lawyers are very dubious about that.
Although one should think that this is obvious, it increasingly seems to escape political and business leaders who, caught in dubious behavior, assert, "I did nothing wrong," and may well even believe it.
We did not think that winning elections gave Bush the right to repress all opposition, and anyone who thinks that Ahmadinejad's dubious triumph gives him a license for brutality is guilty of, to put it mildly, moral inconsistency.
