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...What was it like to sit inside the courtroom...
...Granted that the networks had to put something on screen, some of the choices were crass enough to mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
...firm. He rode to the rescue of Napster after his kids told him how cool it was. Says his wife Mary, a busy antitrust lawyer: "We talked about forming a firm together but decided we preferred romance." She's clearly a fan. Seeing him in the courtroom, she says, is like seeing "Baryshnikov at the ballet...
...things may not be quite that easy inside the courtroom. There is a whole legal field, administrative law, devoted to the intricate question of when a government official has abused his discretion. Courts won't overrule an administrator lightly: In general they need to find that she or he has acted out of prejudice or arbitrarily. To Harris's critics, bias seems a given, since she is co-chair of Bush's Florida campaign. But except in the most blatant cases, courts are reluctant to make such assumptions about an official's motivation...
...they go with the appeal, stay tuned - the Florida Supreme Court allows TV cameras in the courtroom...