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...office as a defense coup. "Johnnie Cochran is a better trial lawyer than the entire defense team put together," asserts one prosecution source. "Now add the race card. With Cochran in, you're going to have a hell of a time trying to find a black juror who will convict. All you need is a holdout...
...Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber...
Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for multiculturalism and defamation of the Third World. I am an elderly white male -- a Jew to boot. Ideal for their purposes...
...month goes by these days without a grotesque outburst of violence in the workplace. In March alone, a worker who was let go entered a Santa Fe Springs, California, electronics factory and shot three + people to death before killing himself. In Boonville, Missouri, a drunken ex- convict walked into a military school's cafeteria in search of his estranged wife; he didn't find her, but fatally shot her boss and a co-worker...
Since its anger is directed toward an entire, yet subtle societal system that perpetuates violence against women, any tribunal that fails to convict alleged rapists is further evidence of such a system...