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...infamous Mafia code of omerta, or silence, has been taking a beating lately. Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, a witness against Gambino crime boss John Gotti in a New York City courtroom, is only the latest mobster to testify on the misdeeds of his cronies in exchange for lenient treatment. Last week Mafia gunmen appeared to send a brutal message to all would-be squealers by shooting and gravely wounding the sister of federal informer Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo...
...courtroom, the University seems to have had a sudden change of heart. In this case, the University is basically saying that lack of faculty diversity does not significantly affect a student's education--an argument which implies that the advantages of diversity are trivial...
...courtroom, Myerson has been a master at proving deception in others, regularly badgering witnesses into submission and throwing himself shamelessly at juries. "Please God, find for us. God bless you," he begged jurors at the 1986 conclusion of his most famous case, an antitrust action brought by the upstart U.S. Football League against the monopolistic practices of the National Football League. Myerson and the U.S.F.L. won -- but they received a humiliating $3 in damages and the lesson that even courtroom victories are no guarantee of riches...
Tensions over the hiring of minority faculty members at Harvard Law School were played out this week in settings ranging from the classroom to the courtroom...
Zora is back from the dead, and she's ready to take on her impotent fiancee, his lover and an 18-year-old homosexual production assistant, all in the courtroom of her own kitchen. So begins Zora's Kitchen, as cast and audience embark on a fantastically clever and witty journey, replete with an arsenal of frying pans, phone sex and fornication...