George Groves, four months after being levelled by Carl Froch, has put himself in reach of a world title for the third time, testimony to his negotiating skills as much as his mental strength and considerable ringcraft.
It abounds with sly incidental pleasures, including the first-time testimony of Mrs Thatcher's sister Muriel and the surprising presence of rather a lot of besotted homosexuals in her court.
The trial was particularly notable because it featured for the first time the testimony of Joseph C. Massino, who became the first official boss of one of New York's five mob families to break the Mafia code of silence to testify for the government.
It began with – and how the team behind this must have worked to win the trust of the witnesses and victims who spoke here, often for the first time – the testimonies of how some came to be caught up in it all, and the tiny chance circumstances that changed lives.
Outside the courtroom, the two men are happy to give interviews, as they did on Thursday, when Mr. Mineo showed up for the first time since his own testimony two weeks ago, to watch Officer Kern on the stand.
For the first time, items that involved testimony from the public were moved to the start of the meeting, so residents could say their piece, go home and leave Council members to wax eloquent to an almost empty chamber.
Last year, after Democrats took control of Congress, they should have immediately (or, at the very least, after the first time a document or testimony request went unanswered) halted work on everything else they were doing to pass an Independent Counsel law.
In the early 1960s, as Israelis were being exposed for the first time to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a series of pornographic pocket books called Stalags, based on Nazi themes, became best sellers throughout the land.
It was the first time in a week of testimony that a witness directly linked Mr. DeLay to the transaction.
In that summer of 1975, Lanzmann convinced Murmelstein to speak for the first time, on camera – an extraordinary testimony, with shattering revelations.
Dozens of Mr. Johnson's relatives gathered in the courtroom yesterday to hear his testimony, the first time many heard his entire version of the ordeal.
