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Talking about the obstacles posed to the defense by Judge Lance A. Ito, Cochran said, "He denied almost every motion [made by the defense], but we kept our eyes on the prize...
...have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June 21 as a plenary session in the city's Opera House received a motion to sign the charter: "Nobody spoke. Somebody said, 'Let's vote.' So we did. The chairmen began to stand, and we suddenly realized that everybody was standing, and we broke into applause...
After four hours of deliberation, the council passed a motion to honor Harvard's request. It also approved the extension of Arsenal Square in principle, but set a meeting date for next Wednesday to refine the details...
...MORNING OF THE VERDICT, THE people who worked on the 18th floor of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts building moved in a blurred slow motion. If they spoke at all, the prosecutors at the district attorney's office did so quietly and only of matter-of-fact things like their morning cup of coffee, not about the impending decision. L.A. County sheriffs posted extra security staffers on the inside of the locked doors of the D.A.'s office. The Goldman family huddled in the prosecutors' sanctum sanctorum, a drab room occupied mostly by cubicles and shelves lined with material from...
...diffuseness of Riggs' work is not merely a reflection of subject matter, but also of a varied and erratic style. In addition to his straightforward, "talking-heads" style interviews with such luminaries as Angela Davis and Cornel West, Riggs also includes blurred and shaky MTV-style cuts, slow-motion ghetto shots and short sections of poetry and dance meant to express his own feelings on the subject matter. Dragging and distracting, the attempts at innovation merely seem scattershot and amateurish for this accomplished filmmaker...