That raises the question of the extent of American guilt.
The reason for Justice Patrick McCarthy's leniency appears to be that Hustveit admitted the extent of his guilt in emails to the victim and in court, and, without these admissions, it would have been impossible to prosecute him.
Dreiser's labyrinthine speculations on the extent of Clyde's guilt do not blunt his searing indictment of materialism and the American dream of success.
While many of the British relatives of those killed have doubts about the extent of Megrahi's guilt and support his being freed, a number of US families who lost loved ones expressed outrage at the prospect.
Instead of a landmark case, one that serves as a resonant reminder of the gulf separating us from our enemies, we have detachment and ambiguity — not just about the extent of Hamdan's guilt but also about the wisdom of the entire tribunal process as well as many other aspects of the prosecution of the war on terror.
She appears in these contradictions still not to have decided the extent of her responsibility or guilt.
Whatever one's views on the appropriateness of impeachment or the exact nature and extent of President Clinton's guilt, it seems there is virtually no chance that he will be removed from office.
The age had always had a morbid significance and so: "I felt justified in what had been a preoccupation with this threshold in my life since age 11 – 'Well, here I am.'" Another vast and thoughtful pause before he offers this: "In a way, the relatively sunny picture I had in terms of my prognosis, revealed to me the extent of my survivor's guilt.
The extent of Heywood's true guilt in the mutiny has been clouded by contradictory statements and possible false testimony.
"It'd be pretty hard for the president of the University of Georgia to divorce himself from what happens at UGA, to that extent I may plead some level of guilt," he said.
One disappointment is that Mr Buruma avoids giving a clear judgment on the central question of the extent of Emperor Hirohito's war guilt, and whether he should have been tried as a war criminal, rather than being allowed to remain on the throne.Despite that, this slender volume packs in more information than you would be lucky to find in a book twice its size.
