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...jury that must decide the fate of a 16-year-old boy on trial for murder. Although the actors are initially a little slow to lose their student demeanors, as they sit down to discuss the case, their characters emerge with convincing force. As a company, the cast evokes not only the heat of the play’s summer setting, but also the heat of the deep and varied feelings that boil beneath the surface of each man. Initially, eleven of the twelve jurors are sure of the boy’s guilt. Only Juror #8 (Jay D. Musen...
...Heading the all-male cast in this drama is the solitary, hawkish and staunchly secularist chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, who has become an Islamist hate target for his 162-page indictment accusing the AKP of seeking to overthrow secularism. Arrayed against him is Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a tall, moody former football player who grew up a hard-line Islamist and was once jailed for reciting a poem deemed to incite religious hatred. His ally, President Abdullah Gul, a moderate, must now balance his party loyalties against the requirement that he be neutral. And lurking in the wings...
...sheet next to the voter's name. But the sheet - drawn up by the precinct chairwoman, an Obama supporter - had listed the 9 Clinton precinct delegates first, followed by the 16 Obama delegates. This would allow the Obama supporters to see how their rivals had voted before they cast any of their choices, the Clinton supporters argued, enabling them to adjust their strategy on the fly if necessary. Rita Stephan, the 35-year-old precinct chairman, a college professor and self-described soccer mom, had used an Excel spreadsheet to generate the list and insisted there was no dark strategy...
...vote? Could they cover their name and choice on the list so the next person could not see how they had voted? By 2:30 p.m., one of the volunteer parliamentarians roaming the expo center was called in. "Your vote is to be open at the time it is cast," Christopher Duke, 20, a college political science major, advised the group...
...response team was still trying to ascertain the identities of the British victims and survivors, the island's volcano erupted, sparking a riotous evacuation scenario in which frantic locals fought with shell-shocked British citizens for spots on the rescue boat. Sandwiched between the two events was a rotating cast of corrupt customs officials, traumatized crash victims, a blood-lusty press corps, unidentified bodies showing up in the morgue, ill-equipped local doctors with a penchant for amputation, grieving family members and looters...