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Festering memories of those incidents - along with Sharpton's protests and the fact that the proceedings are being broadcast nationally on Court TV - have created a volatile atmosphere that puts a heavy burden on the judge, Joseph Teresi, to conduct the trial in a way both sides perceive as fair. So far, he has been up to it. When defense lawyers attempted to block prospective jurors who were black, Teresi stopped them cold and seated a panel that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany...
...oolong 16 Hasty escape 18 Fully absorbed 19 New Microsoft CEO Steve 22 "Is that your ___ answer?" 25 Ducats, in Variety 26 LAX guesstimate 29 Congressman Dan, who wants to subpoena Elian 31 "I lost a bet with ___" (Hillary Top Ten list item) 33 Hallelujah, ___ Bum 34 Bricklayer's burden 36 Data for detectives 37 Donna ___ (soaps actress and Giuliani's wife) 39 Campbell of Scream 42 Dolly the clone, e.g. 43 N.H. clock setting 46 Rocker likened New York to this city 48 Michigan Governor and potential running mate 51 Puts a lid on 52 It's taking...
...stereotype, we may be giving cover to those who buy all of it. Gaydar can lead to a social form of racial profiling. The police aren't stopping gays on the highway, but a gay who comes anywhere near the Richard Simmons profile still carries an added burden in the workplace. At its worst, gaydar is deadly. At the Army base in Kentucky where Private First Class Barry Winchell was beaten to death with a baseball bat last July 5, he hadn't told that he was gay, in strict compliance with regulations. It was gaydar that tracked him down...
Duehay says the burden is on Cantabrigians to push for changes to make their city government better, if necessary...
...would suggest that white characters must be either Tony Soprano or Dawson Leery. Representativeness--one show expected to carry a whole race--is the curse of minority-cast series when so few are on TV. City's unusualness as a drama is a big publicity boon but also a burden. "Minorities in the business are rooting like hell for this show," says Charles Holland, a black writer. "The stakes are high...