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...guidance of the judge. But judges are worried that an incautious intervention from the bench might provide a basis for appeal. The result, says Gloria Allred, an activist Los Angeles attorney, is that "judges, who want to allow the defense as much of a chance as possible, sometimes err on the side of the defendant by allowing the victim to be vigorously cross-examined." When they do, the only palliative seems to be public protest. The storm over Hanson's treatment last week led to a formal apology from the judge a few days later. With Atlas at her side...
...human identity comes the philosophical "I'm pink. Therefore, I'm Spam" and a variation on a popular theme, "To err is human. To moo bovine...
...ironic that the Academy will honor Kathleen Turner for a performance Melanie Griffith performed better. In both movies a woman's world is turned upside down when she attends her high school reunion. Only in Something Wild the world is our world, whereas the world of Peggy Sue is, err, Somewhere Over The Rainbow...
...slideshow featuring lots of pictures of ice crystallizing, and dogs, and beaches, and sunsets, and black holes, and umbrellas, and kite-flying, and gap-teethed kids gobbling psychedelic spools of never-eat-anything-bigger-than-yer-head cotton candy, my heart was going pitter-pat. It really was. I, err, looked forward to this thing, this piece of space-detritus with more zeros at the end of its comet-tail budget than the rounded-off totality of the Harvard endowment...
...haven't walked away. Perhaps not all the decisions we make today are ^ correct. Perhaps we err in some things. But we want to act and not sit with folded arms, letting the process pass...