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Experts say jury selection in this case will depend less on gender, income or homemaking prowess than on the strictness of each juror's moral outlook. "The prosecution is looking for people who see the world in black and white," says jury consultant Donald Vinson. "Martha's lawyers are looking for people who, before blindly obeying a rule, ask how important it is." To help find the latter, Stewart has hired jury psychologist Julie Blackman, whose recent high-profile client Frank Quattrone, the banker charged with obstruction of justice, wound up with a hung jury...
...have this funny thing where we see maturity as being independent, not needing other people," says Johnson. "But when the Twin Towers came down in New York, what did people around the world do? They held on to the people they were with, they phoned the person they depend upon the most...
...tens of thousands of students who depend on AmeriCorps’ average $4,724 grant to pay for college, it can mean the difference between an interesting, rewarding career and a dead-end, minimum-wage job. By putting those students to work on important service projects, AmeriCorps funding also helps build strong, happy communities—and it has bipartisan support across the country. A program like AmeriCorps cries out to be dramatically expanded to help young people build skills while at the same time serving their country in a positive and peaceful way. But President Bush?...
Berman said it is not yet known how much the construction of the Allston campus will ultimately cost Harvard, as “the planning process is in early stages, and the cost will depend on decisions about program, what types of buildings, et cetera...
...what they like, when they like, without anyone attempting to coordinate a coherent message. That would not matter if Washington were the capital of a tin-pot nation of little consequence; it does when it's the capital of the world's only superpower, on whose actions countless millions depend. It's not brains you need to figure that out but a small dose of common sense. Not much of that in evidence last week. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper/Washington, Peter Gumbel/Paris and J.F.O. McAllister/London