Word: courtroom
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...Still, there's nothing like the real thing, in festering splendor, on the Frost/Nixon DVD. Here is Tricky Dick, smiling, wheedling, lawyering like crazy to get himself exonerated on a technicality, until he realizes that this isn't a courtroom, it's a TV show. Like any politician, Nixon was an actor - a bad actor, to be sure, but a great bad actor, in that he let the camera's surgical close-ups reveal more than he wanted to display, and sometimes the exact opposite of what he was trying to say. The performance is infuriating and hilarious, or unbearably...
...Washington, D.C. hearing work with your clients imprisoned at Guantanamo? They actually testified by live video link. One of my partners examined them in Guantanamo in a large room with a camera and then the government cross-examined them from Judge Leon's courtroom in Washington. I think that may have been a first as far as I know...
...courtroom thriller began last Thursday. Al Khalifa, 33, testified that Jackson, 50, reneged on a contract for a new album, an autobiography and a stage play after accepting millions of dollars in advances. The sheik said that in addition to covering Jacko's living and travel expenses during his year-long stay in Bahrain, he built the singer a recording studio, spent more than $300,000 securing him a "motivational guru" and gave him $250,000 in cash so Jackson "could entertain his friends at Christmas." Jackson has maintained that these were gifts from the Arab prince, an interpretation...
...Apart from the embarassing revelations in the Miami courtroom, Argentina's lengthy economic bonanza seems to have been abruptly ended not by the recent worldwide financial meltown but by a series of drastic economic initiatives apparently micromanaged by Kirchner, who now serves as president of the Peronist Justicialista Party, the dominant political force in the country...
...this Umbrian hilltop city, it has been Knox's sweetly scrubbed looks that have generated much of the international attention in the case. Emerging in public earlier this month after nearly a year behind bars, the Seattle native appeared dressed in a simple white blouse. Led into the courtroom in handcuffs, photographers captured the mix of beauty and blankness on the lightly freckled visage of the former University of Washington student...