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...that from a man who supports the institution of juries, which are, after all, a group of ordinary citizens who sacrifice their time, comfort and sometimes income. It's not the jurors who are the problem, says Adler, but the ordeal they are subjected to. First, the most competent citizens are permitted to escape the jury pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them...
Terry Anderson, the best-known and longest-held American in the 1980s Beirut hostage crisis, filed suit today against 11 government agencies to shake loose official documents about his ordeal. The former Associated Press correspondent claims the materials are being withheld by the U.S. government without just cause. The State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors...
Those who did brave the sea seem to have come away from the ordeal with a better understanding of the price of freedom. "I don't want to wake up from my dream," exclaimed Aylen Alvarez, 8, a pretty girl from Puente Grande Havana who arrived on Wednesday with her mother. "I want to eat the whole apple. I've never had one before. Can't I do that? Please...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...
BANGLADESH: Author's Ordeal...