Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here at Dartboard we were interested to hear the results of this year's survey of college first-years. The final verdict? Less sex, less beer, more volunteering, less politics, fewer pre-laws--we're getting a warm and fuzzy feeling...
...straightforward on the issue of freelance investigation and research by jurors: It's strictly prohibited. Juries are supposed to reach their decision only on the evidence they hear at trial, and only according to the legal instructions they receive from the judge -- period. The McDougal jury has been struggling since it went into deliberations, however, sending out no fewer than three notes seeking clarification on various points, such as state of mind and the meaning of "innocent reason." Says Novak: "It's difficult to know, but they seemed to be begging to be informed about what might be a reasonable...
...before you write me off as just another insane Harvard kid who was accepted simply for his ability to prove Fermat's last theorem backwards in tongues, hear...
...style more often enervates than inspires. Last week in Sioux Falls, S.D., he drained the energy from a gymnasium full of 600 elementary schoolers by quizzing them on the merits of smaller class size. Four days later in New Hampshire, he numbed an expectant audience, which had come to hear about long-term health care, by opening his presentation with a long, awkward tutorial on Kosovo...
...script wasn't supposed to end this way. On Oscar night the DreamWorks team of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg was hoping--probably expecting--to hear Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan, named Best Picture. Certainly, the glittering assemblage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was shocked. When Shakespeare in Love was announced, there was an audible gasp...