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That same fervor was on display last night as select HLS students debated before a crowd at the Ames Courtroom in the Ames Final Moot Court Competition...
...cipher has spoken. Nearly 40 years after that dawn patrol, Sergeant Jenkins appeared on Wednesday before a U.S. one-day general court-martial at Camp Zama, near Tokyo. From a packed courtroom and closed-circuit viewing hall, the world got its first extended look at the soldier who came in from the cold. Jenkins seemed to be neither the treacherous turncoat the American military and some media accounts had portrayed, nor an innocent victim of abduction. Instead, the world saw a frail, fragile, frequently weeping old man who was, back in that day in 1965, a scared, drunk, tired...
...During a courtroom examination, Jenkins for the first time recounted publicly the circumstances of his defection. In a halting and gravelly drawl, he revealed that he wound up in North Korea not because he was abducted or because he had any ill will for the U.S., but for a far more prosaic reason: he was scared. Although he had been in the Army for six years and was on his second tour in Korea, his November 1964 deployment there was by far the most dangerous of his career, with frequent patrols along the DMZ and the enemy occasionally shooting...
Forget Desperate Housewives. This week's juiciest backbiting scenes may come from a Delaware courtroom, where former Disney president and fallen über-agent MICHAEL OVITZ, near left, is expected to testify. Shareholders are suing Disney's board, claiming the 1995 hiring of Ovitz and his dismissal 14 months later by Disney CEO MICHAEL EISNER cost the company up to $200 million. The plaintiffs allege Disney could have fired Ovitz for lying (a charge his spokesman calls "hearsay and gossip") and denied him his $140 million severance. In an internal memo read in court last week, Eisner called Ovitz, once...
Those close to Pring-Wilson and Colono delivered emotional statements before the sentencing that left half the people packed into the courtroom sniffling and wiping their eyes. The rest sat solemnly pondering Colono’s death and Pring-Wilson’s crime...