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...jury: Four women and three men, chosen in a surprisingly expeditious impaneling Monday. Since the government is the defendant, an actual jury was legally unnecessary but helpful in making it look as if justice is served (the alternative is a federal judge). A gym teacher, an electrician, a homemaker, an accountant, a secretary, a landlord and a retired Army sergeant - these seven have the task of sorting through 51 days of mounting frustrations and one of bloody mayhem, and assigning blame for an outcome that nobody was proud...
...reading a joke) and it turns into something really rotten. It's kind of like leaving an unpleasant package in someone's mailbox and watching them open it. Hacking is, of course, a huge power trip for a young kid who gets to inflict this kind of inconvenience or actual discomfort on a whole lot of grown-ups, including the heads of the same corporations many of these kids might like to see humiliated...
...actual reading part of our meetings fell apart the fifth time I asked, "What do you want to read in TIME this week?" and he didn't choose my column. I realized it was more effective to define reading in a broader sense, as in saying, "Can you read how many tickets it takes to play Pop-A-Shot?" during a trip to the ESPN Zone...
...19th century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Ill., and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. This is a tradition that cries out for reinstatement. Let Al Gore and George W. Bush go home and remain there in decorous silence until November...
...critics will say, that would only make things worse. The campaign would be taken over by gaudily negative advertising and spinmeister surrogates far more vicious and irresponsible than the actual candidates...