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...pleasant story, any way you look at it: One minute, Thomas Junta and Michael Costin were watching their sons' hockey practice. The next, fists (and insults) were flying - a brawl that left Costin dead. The July, 2000 incident, which bloodied the floor at a Reading, Massachusetts hockey rink, was front page news for a few days, then mercifully faded from sight. But this week, as Junta's trial for manslaughter drew to a close, the hockey dads were back in the spotlight. Friday evening, after less than two days of deliberations, a jury found Junta guilty of involuntary manslaughter...
...Here we are in the midst of a war, and the coverage of this case has been remarkable. Throughout the week, Junta was front and center on every cable news channel for hours at a time, weeping and pleading and eventually, Thursday afternoon, sitting mum as the judge gave the jury its orders...
...appetite for this trial so rabid? It's not as if this case will set any particularly interesting legal precedent, and no one involved is famous, so comparisons to the O.J. Simpson murder trial fall a bit flat. Are we fascinated by Junta because we enjoy trials in general, because of the voyeuristic thrill we get from watching another person's fate hang in the balance? Certainly the breakthrough success of Court TV - and the coverage granted to other legal proceedings - indicates there is an audience for even the least exciting trials...
...were stunned when a visibly tense President, in a Sept. 19 televised speech, compared Pakistan's current predicament with the devastating 1971 civil war, in which Bangladesh fought free and the country was split in two. Unless Musharraf acts skillfully, hard-line religious forces could rise against his military junta--which came to power in an October 1999 coup...
...were stunned when a visibly tense President, in a Sept. 19 televised speech, compared Pakistan's current predicament with the devastating 1971 civil war, in which Bangladesh fought free and the country was split in two. Unless Musharraf acts skillfully, hard-line religious forces could rise against his military junta?which came to power in an October 1999 coup...