Word: courtroom
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...arena Starr enters Thursday is nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions...
...appear in person. There is one similarity with the former football star's second ordeal; the media will be kept in check this time. "I see no basis for an attorney appearing on television for any reason in this case," Judge Young said as he banned cameras from his courtroom. "This case is not going to be tried in the press." But as anyone who read the Boston Herald and Globe during the first Woodward trial knows, that may be a vain hope...
...video also made a more subtle point: that Gates is just a bit loopy. The Gates in the video--shown to a packed courtroom over three large monitors--paused for 20 seconds or more while formulating some answers. When the going got tough, he rocked back and forth in his chair like a toy dog in a car window. He testily parsed fine distinctions (Microsoft's "deal" with Apple vs. their "relationship") and professed to be nonplussed by common Anglo-Saxon words ("I have no idea what you're talking about when you say 'ask.'"). At times the wiry, high...
...video was bumped to the following Monday. Microsoft couldn't have been unhappy that Gates got lost in the clutter of last week's national election-eve coverage. "It's a two-front war," notes George Washington University law professor Bill Kovacic. "This case is being waged inside the courtroom and outside...
...claim that his arrest is "certainly not British justice" remains to be determined this week by the House of Lords -- but it won't be helped by the fact that none of the 3,000 people kidnapped and killed by his junta ever saw the inside of a courtroom. The British take a dim view of that sort of thing...