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While I resented the inconvenience of a bus ride home in the middle of midterms, and was appalled by the 8:30 a.m. check-in time at the district courthouse, I secretly looked forward to fulfilling my civic obligation. My enthusiasm was fueled by a pamphlet, the “Trial Juror’s Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised...
Intermittently watching the rain and reading the Handbook on the bus ride back to Harvard, though, I realized I shouldn’t have been disappointed. “Through fate, you and your co-jurors have been brought together in a search for justice,” my Handbook continues mystically. And then didactically: “Justice means truth and fairness...
...wasn’t what was called a “limousine liberal.” Since his success in 1990, Wellstone has kept that old green bus in which he’d ride around the frigid Minnesota countryside, preaching the gospel of liberalism. He was for the little people. He was only five foot five in wingtips. He used to say, “I’m for the little fellers, not the Rockefellers...
...matter how small you are, you have to make a change,” said Rybak, relating the message of his deceased colleague. “We have to pick up [where Wellstone left off], and figure out how we’re going to move the green bus...
Friday, at a memorial service in front of the Minnesota state capitol, a preacher told the crowd, “We cannot park the green bus.” If it were a practical choice, Wellstone probably would have taken the bus up to northern Minnesota for the funeral he was scheduled to attend. He was known to hate and fear flying in those small planes...