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...familiar scene: A man in his mid-30s waits outside a courtroom, his eyes dull, his posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again...
...first day of the trial had all the trappings of a media circus. Dumas, dapper in a navy blue suit and leaning on a cane, was mobbed by photographers and had to be escorted into the courtroom by gendarmes. Deviers-Joncour, 53, arrived like a star at the Cannes Film Festival, dressed in a clinging black suit and smiling demurely at the shouting journalists. As she took a seat on one end of the bench, the male defendants clustered together at the other end, scrupulously avoiding eye contact with the woman who has described herself in a tell-all bestseller...
...intelligence community obviously weighs the value of securing a conviction against the value of keeping in place someone who is cooperating with the U.S. And they almost always tend towards keeping them in place until they've exhausted their usefulness, before sending them into a courtroom...
...subordinates for the crimes of which he's been charged won't go down well in the ranks. Indeed, it may sully Pinochet's reputation even among the men in uniform for whom his honor was once unimpeachable. Whether or not he ever sees the inside of a courtroom, the trial - and even the punishment - of Augusto Pinochet has already begun...
...challenge for any analysis of the Microsoft antitrust saga is to resolve its central enigma: How could the same people who'd been so brilliant in the lab and the boardroom--building the world's most valuable corporation in a mere generation--have been so wrongheaded in the courtroom? Auletta has a provocative answer: what the Jesuits call holy effrontery. He argues that Bill Gates and his disciples are so convinced of the rightness of their cause that they can't even conceive that they might be wrong--or that any fairminded person could think...