Word: casting
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...parents, that significantly swayed their decision. A middle-aged black man dressed in a striped blue polo shirt said he had been convinced by the evidence that it was indeed R. Kelly who appeared in the 27-minute sex video. In fact, the man said, he was prepared to cast a guilty vote. But he reversed course, he said, because "I wasn't sure it was [the female] - based on what I had before me." Shortly after the investigation began in earnest in 2002, the woman denied she was in the tape...
...first, the jury deliberations seemed indecisive. After jurors began on Thursday afternoon, they cast votes about once an hour. First, they reached a vote of nine not guilty, three guilty. Then, it shifted to ten not guilty, two guilty. At one point, the breakdown shifted to seven not guilty, five guilty. This morning, jurors sent several notes: They needed an easel with a flip-board to visualize their arguments. They wanted a second VCR to review evidence more closely. "I've seen the video too many times - the first time was too many," said the lone female juror who agreed...
August: Osage county--a lacerating, 3 hr. 20 min. play about one of the meanest, most dysfunctional families ever put onstage--is not much of an advertisement for filial love. Yet when it came time to cast the small but crucial role of the family patriarch--who appears in just one scene, then commits suicide--playwright Tracy Letts did something only a very brave son would do: he let his father play the role...
...Comply or Die It would be easy to cast these factory bosses as simply greedy and corrupt - until one looks at the pressures they face. Auditing came into vogue at the same time that Western firms were pushing harder than ever for lower prices and faster turnarounds. From the mid-1990s onwards, "many multinationals were telling factories, 'Give me this cheaply, give me this quickly - and, by the way, comply with your local labor law, or our code of conduct, whichever is higher,'" says Ayesha Khan, a manager with BSR, a CSR consultancy...
...Brave New Party In most presidential elections, the Iowa caucuses are an anomaly. Competing there is a complicated, labor-intensive undertaking that, once finished, is cast off as an oddity and never repeated. But in 2008 it became for Obama the road test of a youth-oriented, technology-fueled organization and the model for many of the wins that followed. It was also a challenge to history. The iron rule of Iowa had always been that caucusgoers tended to look the same year in and year out: older people, union households, party stalwarts - just the kind of folks who would...