Yet the main order of business here is to entertain, and in this Harbach succeeds.

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Henry is suddenly incapable of throwing accurately, undermined by paralytic self-consciousness, or, Harbach seems to be arguing, by the onset of adulthood itself.

NEWYORKER: First Inning

But David Harbach of the U.S. Justice Department's public integrity section told jurors in a rebuttal argument that Lowell was merely trying to distract jurors from focusing on the charges against Edwards.

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"The defense is overplaying their hand, " Harbach said.

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