Working on the San Francisco commission, Hawkinson explained, "I had rivets on the brain".
Mr. Fossella's plea brings an end to a case that had riveted public attention.
They then untied Captain Phillips, ending the contretemps at sea that had riveted much of the world's attention.
A legal dispute that had riveted the chess world and hobbled the United States Chess Federation, the game's governing body, has been settled — mostly.
The hearing on Wednesday returned to the spotlight a dark tale combining religion and vengeance that had riveted the news media and legal journals.
The latest verdict marked the end of a two-year drama that had riveted this nation of 22 million, and had repercussions beyond it.
Before he was killed May 2 by Navy Seals who stormed his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Bin Laden had not reacted publicly to the series of popular demonstrations in Arab countries that had riveted the world's attention.
The unprecedented and sweeping domestic spying of the National Security Agency had riveted the nation's attention and awakened the sleeping regulatory agencies and the federal courts.
The case has riveted Israel for years.
