Word: forthings
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Anchored by E! news correspondent Greg Agnew, the show cuts back and forth between generally incisive commentary from a variety of legal analysts, including Charles Rosenberg, to the bizarre dramatizations. Each day E!'s in-court reporters take copious notes on the mannerisms and inflections displayed by the lawyers and witnesses in the trial. Then the reporters brief the actors, who act out the most pertinent snippets of the day with the aid of a TelePrompTer. Harshly lighted, and staged in a fake courtroom modeled to look like Fujisaki's, they seem neither realistic nor dramatic but rather like mini...
Common sense might dictate that the battle over Simpson's children would wait politely until the conclusion of the civil trial. For one thing, the simultaneous trials are forcing Simpson to shuttle back and forth between two courtrooms. For another, the custody trial (expected to last about five weeks) may conclude before a verdict in the civil trial--a verdict that could, one assumes, have a bearing on the issue of whether Simpson is a fit parent. "It is beyond comprehension that the custody court has seen fit to proceed now," says Martin Guggenheim, a family-law specialist...
...narrative switches back and forth in time, from the Sunday morning, June 22, 1958, when Jean Ellroy's strangled body was discovered near a high school athletic field in El Monte, up to the recent past, when James, her only child, teams up with a retired member of the Los Angeles sheriff's department to investigate the old unsolved murder all over again. In between, Ellroy portrays the harrowing spell, unrecognized by him at the time, that his mother's fate cast over his adolescence and the sort of person and writer he would become...
...essay "Science and Original Sin," Robert Wright puts forth as scientific fact a genetically based theory of psychological egoism. It is a weird piece of dogma. Although no sane person would deny that we humans harbor some pretty horrible tendencies and that these have some genetic basis, it does not follow that we are biologically driven to commit the seven deadly sins or that when moved by compassion, "we are in some Darwinian sense 'misusing' our equipment of reciprocal altruism ... into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate." I believe that there...
...Gibson didn't have a deep moral message. So he used some occasional profanity. So he expressed views that some of us (including myself) may have disagreed with. So what? I don't want Mel Gibson to spew forth some drivel about how awful violence in the movies is when that's not what he actually believes. Gibson answered honestly, and yes, a little flippantly. He was light-hearted and humorous. I just don't understand how that relates to Mr. Jones' claim that Harvard is, "the finest school in this hemisphere, if not the world." Is that really relevant...