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Citing financial difficulties and a new, more restrictive policy on academic centers, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) announced last week that actress Jane Fonda will not be donating most of the $12.5 million she pledged two years ago for the creation of a gender studies center...
...Fonda gave the GSE $6.5 million at the time of her pledge, a large part of which was earmarked for the chair. But this summer, when nothing had been made of her donation, the actress was reportedly angry and considering withholding the rest of her donation, according to a Boston Globe columnist...
...says a former employee. Pretending it was all a game helped too. A videotape of a 1997 party surfaced this month, showing Skilling joking that Enron could make "a kazillion dollars" through an exotic new accounting technique. It was close to true, and not so funny. --By Daren Fonda, with reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...sanctity of the process. Cameras, they say, will skew the composition of juries by removing people who don't want to deliberate in front of them. And jurors who don't feel articulate or confident may be reluctant to speak out or take an unpopular stand--as Henry Fonda did in the classic movie 12 Angry Men--if they think their neighbors are watching and judging them. Furthermore, recording jury deliberations, opponents say, might encourage litigation and prolong what some feel is the already cumbersome process of appeals...
...truth and fairness, although not in the grand, Fonda-esque scale I once imagined, that I spent four hours one rainy Wednesday morning in an old National Guard armory in Falmouth. Serving jury duty did not transform me into Henry Fonda; neither has a year at Harvard, mercifully, made me into Love Story’s Ali McGraw. Ultimately, I think, ours is a justice system that does not rely on a citizenry of Henry Fondas. It is enough for us to gather in a shabby room and watch television. The Constitution guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers...