He testified for less than four minutes before his mother hustled him away.
Betsy Torres, who worked alongside Ms. Sheehan in the office of a public school, testified that less than an hour before the shooting, Ms. Sheehan came to her house and said over and over "that she was scared and he was going to kill her".
And so the peacefulness, the serenity that we feel away from the Internet, and which all the Better-Nevers rightly testify to, has less to do with being no longer harried by others than with being less oppressed by the force of your own inner life.
Michael's mother said she had feared that he would be unable even to enter the courtroom, much less testify.
If you were feeling very, very brave you might go touch up your make-up in the ladies, but as my fellow Willow-devotees will testify, perhaps the less said about the toilets, the better.
Stories have an inner power of their own and as anyone who has written a piece of fiction will testify, writers are less the masters than the galley slaves of that mysterious power.
This seems surprising, I say: surely he must have been dying to ask? "Here's the thing: I knew that if I was going to testify in court, the less I knew, the better.
But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand — and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.
The phenolic radicals were testified to be less reactive and retain lower electron reduction potential than the oxygen radicals [25].
What shocked me was not that the cops offered this dubious justification, but that the Los Angeles County prosecutors had put them on the stand -- on national television, no less -- to testify to it, and that the judge accepted the officers' statements as admissible.
