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While authoritative studies have yet to be compiled, jury consultants are beginning to correlate TV habits with a juror's likely behavior during a trial and deliberations. Talk-show watchers, says Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, a jury consultant in Pasadena, California, are considered more likely to distrust the official version and to believe there are two sides to a story. At the same time, jurors who regularly watch such reality-based police shows as America's Most Wanted may harbor strong law-and-order beliefs. "We want to find out what drives a potential juror to watch the shows," says John...
...also well-known and loved among manyof the people who distrust those police officers.Rivers constantly works the streets, and he goesto bat for young people--no matter who they...
...that Miller's home building company, Lennar Corp., builds substandard housing, Ms. Carrier mentions the damage suffered by some Lennar homes in the wake of Hurricane Andrew's destruction in 1992. But although Ms. Carrier mentions lawsuits filed against the company as an indicator of some new-found public distrust of Lennar, she conveniently leaves out the fact that prosecutors who investigated Lennar exonerated the company of all criminal wrongdoing. In fact, investigators concluded that Lennar's homes were all built up to code, and that most of the weaknesses exposed by Andrew were the result of practices sanctioned...
...blame for the current distrust cannot be placed only on the police. The people who control Harvard--the Board, President, and Deans, must be held responsible for controlling the police department. They have the power to demand a high standard of behavior from Harvard police. Racial injustice cannot be allowed to fester at one of America's most distinguished universities...
...would ask the U.N. to tighten the embargo. And it allowed some 400 Haitian fugitives to land in Florida -- though officials insisted this was a special case, not a reversal of policy. Washington has started looking for a new special envoy to replace Lawrence Pezzullo, whom Aristide's backers distrust. None of these moves was likely either to satisfy Aristide or to impress the military thugs who ousted him in a 1991 coup. They refer to Clinton by a variety of sneering names, of which only farceur (comedian) is printable...