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...Barn Door. Kaplan's flexible definition is a reminder of the difficulties of denning fairness. One all too common line of thinking holds that a "fair" jury promises a fifty-fifty chance of acquittal. In fact, fair jurors are expected to begin impartially, regardless of previous impressions, then follow the evidence to whatever conclusion it demands. But once judge, prosecution and defense have accepted a panel to do that job, an immediate question arises-particularly in notorious cases. Can the jurors' impartiality be sustained in the face of a barrage of publicity? A judge can reduce the danger...
When all of the diehard fans had finally cleared out of Tufts's indoor athletic barn, the dittoed stat sheets revealed that Harvard had netted 93 points to Northeastern's 82, Boston College's 43, Brandeis's 24, and a few other colleges with a smattering of points...
...Born in Princeton, Ill., where his mother was alto soloist in the Lutheran church and his father owned the local moviehouse and was the "best auctioneer the state of Illinois has ever seen," Fox began piano lessons at eight. A year later he discovered an old organ in a barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours a day. At ten he was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church. At 20 he graduated with top honors from Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music, then studied with the celebrated French organist Marcel Dupré before returning...
Schoolteacher John Miller and a neighbor were painting Miller's barn roof at his farm near Lucasville, Ohio. Wham! The neighbor was almost knocked off his aluminum ladder by an electric shock. In the town of Franklin Furnace, Farmer C.B. Ruggles' son was riding his pony when-whap!-he and the animal were jolted, apparently by electrical charges in the metallic parts of the bridle and stirrups. A housewife in Lucasville turned on the tap to do the dishes...
...Brown shoot its wad against Cornell or are the Bruins coming into their own? This could be barn-burner. Harvard 27, Brown...