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...desire to charge ahead, Ito quashed a motion by the prosecution to defer the jury selection until after a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case. The DA's office had asked for the delay because they could then pick a jury "untainted" by any media coverage of DNA results that come out in the hearing -- a well-known prosecution ploy, says TIME Law Reporter Andrea Sachs. "They don't want the jury to hear any of the outside information. They want a sequestered jury," says Sachs. "A sequestered jury is often a hanging jury...
...DA: These two recordings appear removed from each other in many ways. The exertion, enthusiasm, and depth of interpretation necessary to bring off the Schumann hardly parallel the effortless lightness of the Beethoven. Indeed, the players react extremely differently to the two pieces...
...DA: It's true that, particularly in the first movement of the Schumann, the players plant huge accents and unlikely crescendos in their parts, as though trying to outdo each other. I agree that Ax's playing casts the largest shadow on these recordings. His clear and often too-powerful playing in the Schumann starkly highlights the roughshod scampering of Laredo and Stern. Laredo's most credible playing comes in the third movement, though his rich solo must contend with Stern's wavering obbligato...
...DA: Yes, Ax's solo parts made me think he was playing cadenzas for some Romantic concerti; when the rest of the continuo (which they might rightly be called) come back in, you're left wondering where the rest of the orchestra went. In the fervid parts of the Schumann, their sound had none of the immediacy...
...positive side of ADHD, some CHADD chapters circulate lists of illustrious figures who, they contend, probably suffered from the disorder: the messy and disorganized Ben Franklin, the wildly impulsive and distractible Winston Churchill. For reasons that are less clear, these lists also include folks like Socrates, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci -- almost any genius of note. (At least two doctors interviewed for this story suggested that the sometimes scattered Bill Clinton belongs on the list...