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...Chamber has the pace and characters of a thriller, but little else to suggest that it was written by the glib and cheeky author of Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber...
...with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted under oath last month in a Texas courtroom that he is married to two women, he remains in the Army. "He was under a lot of stress and was nervous about being kicked out," she says. "He said if he didn't get his sergeant's stripes, I was going to get hurt." She's angered that...
...speed on most of those issues will project a sketchy profile. This may account for the different impressions made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, the court's newest arrivals. The extroversion of Ginsburg, an enthusiastic dancer at parties, has been heartily reflected in her courtroom demeanor -- sometimes to the annoyance of her colleagues. On her first day on the bench last October, she asked a lot of questions, 17 in the first hour alone. Her erudition has impressed legal observers, but her aggressiveness has annoyed litigants and even garnered impatient stares from fellow Justices...
Testifying in an Anchorage courtroom as part of a civil lawsuit against the Exxon Corp., Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...
...that Clinton operates by the phony physics of virtual reality (appearances, conjurations, evaporating threats, a governance of attitude and feeling) and has not a cold, hard grasp of plain fact. One has a suspicion that Clinton does not know that the reality of reality always wins. Ultimately, in the courtroom of history, life is fair -- and often brutal...