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...that cameras in the jury room would distort both the makeup of the panel and its later discussions about the case. Fourteen of the 110 potential jurors from surrounding Harris County had expressed discomfort about being filmed during voir dire and had been excused from service. Said the prosecutors' brief: "The desire to serve on a Survivor-style reality-television series should not be added to the qualifications for jury service...
...brief question-and-answer session, Gore fielded queries about the next presidential election, the Electoral College and his clean-shaven look...
...mother is from," he says. "I didn't really fit in with a lot of the Austrians I met, but I couldn't feel comfortable with those guys you see at European mosques either - the ones with the long beards and robes but nothing going on upstairs." After a brief flirtation with Scientology, he re-embraced Islam just as someone told him about Hizb ut-Tahrir. The Hizb ut-Tahrir members "were educated and self-sufficient and open to the world around them," Assem recalls. "It wasn't all about beards and robes and prayer, but about logic...
...boring company," he claims. "Everyone expects me to be a great raconteur, but I'm a terrible storyteller. And so are most of the travel writers I've met." Bryson has led a fittingly peripatetic life. He moved to England from his native Iowa in 1973 and, after a brief spell working as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital, began writing full time. He stumbled into travel writing when the only book proposal he managed to sell was The Lost Continent. He returned to the U.S. in '95 at his family's instigation but keeps a flat in London...
...convincing - the suggestion that Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington sent money to 9/11 hijackers, for example, turns out to be based on a charitable check she wrote to a woman who, unbeknownst to the princess, had signed it over to a man who made brief loan to two of the hijackers without knowing their terrorist identities. Yet three substantial degrees of separation didn't stop Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman who referred to that incident following al-Jubeir's press conference to chide that ''the Bush Administration and the Saudis...