Within minutes of receiving the teenager's frank account, messages were pouring in from other women, young and old, testifying to the same feelings of pressure and inadequacy regardless of age or achievement.
Specifically, a witness, Menachem Lieberman, as a 13-year-old, testified back then that he had seen Mr. Ranta sitting in a car near the murder site.
The 6-year-old testified that he had seen Mr. James playing with the gun, and the boy said he remembered Kayla's being shot.
When the mother of that 12-year-old testified, it brought the trial to a standstill.
Norman Mailer, an old friend, testified on his behalf at trial, as did the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The last time John Kerry gave a speech this important, he was 27 years old and testifying against the Vietnam War.
An old friend testified that he threatened to kill his children and rob Cindy of her dearest gifts; Garner wonders if Farquharson was really trying to commit suicide.
But to those in the grandstand, where the stained carpet and old furnishings testify to the greyhounds' second-rate status at the gambling complex, dog racing has a special charm.
To argue that the revival of the Labor Day parade in 1981 (following a 13-year hiatus), together with the unsuccessful mayoral candidacy of State Assemblyman Frank Barbaro, a son of the old left, "testified to the continuing institutional strength of New York unionism" suggests a fatal penchant for symbolism over political substance.
Crow Nation chairman Darrin Old Coyote testified in July before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources that the deal is largely dependent on the fate of coal exports through the Northwest.
