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...last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people off the hook...
Hinz did not get off to a good start against the Green. In the first quarter, he rushed twice for a total of one yard. Three times in the opening frame, Yohe--who had only 10 incompletions the whole day--was unable to hook up with Hinz...
...begun to have a crisis of confidence in the Garden State. One day last August, I took a road trip down to Sandy Hook with a couple friends. Frankly, I was shocked...
...discussion. Each script is reviewed by Poussaint to ensure psychological credibility and avoid negative stereotyping. His sanitizing hand can be as heavy as a network censor's. In the original script for one Halloween episode, Vanessa and a friend were to dress up as a witch and Captain Hook. Poussaint vetoed both, arguing that witches perpetuate an offensive image of women and that the captain's hooked hand reinforces the idea of handicaps being evil. The youngsters wore more innocuous costumes instead, with Vanessa dressing up as an African princess...
...palms together and moved them as you would to describe the course of a river -- ". . . well, you get the idea. If you can make people see things your way, there is nothing more satisfying. Call me crazy." Sam said the train idea was just the "perfect hook. You knew the media would...