It is somehow telling that we get a stronger impression of Disfarmer from a brief, funny sequence in which the locals testify to his oddities than we do from spending more than an hour watching him putter around and listening to the weird chatter inside his head.
The former president of a union local testified yesterday that Dennis Sullivan, the chief negotiator for District Council 37, the union of municipal workers, helped rig the union's 1995 contract ratification vote.
The former chairwoman of the election committee of Mr. Diop's local testified that he had ordered that 5,000 extra ballots be printed to make it easier to forge votes.
But in 1970, after volunteers, including local children, testified about their discoveries, the city declared the four buildings a landmark.
Several defeated candidates for congressional or local positions testified at a hearing in Congress that they had been approached by people (again, unidentified) offering to sell electronically generated fake votes.
Manny Hellen, president of the Utility Workers Union of America's Local 1-2, testiford for stronger protections for whistle-blowers and a 24-hour hot line under city auspices for tracking public complaints.
In Yemen, where the government is more openly aligned with the US on counterterrorism, anger about and fear of drones have become a cultural phenomenon, as a local activist testified to the Senate in the spring, citing parents who used threats of the drones to discipline misbehaving children.
Upon further inquiry, the owners of local stores testified that they had not sold weapons to Chinese patrons before the massacre.
At the hearings, local residents testified that they have been experiencing horrifying health problems as a result of carcinogenic oil sands emissions that are vented continuously near their homes.
Witnesses such as Bishop Daly and one of the local stewards testify unambiguously to armoured vehicles charging down Rossville Street, and soldiers following on foot firing at the marchers.
