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...upcoming O'Hara trial Piper and Phillabaum are once again up against Howard - who has saved the lives of 15 of his previous 19 clients in death-penalty cases. But Phillabaum insists that the anticrying motion is not a reaction to one particular trial or attorney, but the result of witnessing emotional displays "inappropriate[ly]" tipping the scales of justice in many capital cases...
...Phillabaum's motion has drawn particular attention because of its implication that attorneys weep crocodile tears in a calculated attempt to manipulate juries. Howard vehemently denies this accusation. "They're alleging that I cry on cue and that I've been trained to do this. Nothing could be further from the truth," he told TIME. "In a death penalty case, as strongly as I feel for my clients and as much time and energy as I've put in, it happens...
...runs huge telecommunications and financial services businesses in India (and shouldn't be confused with Reliance Industries Ltd., another massive conglomerate owned by Anil Ambani's even richer brother Mukesh), gets an entry into Hollywood and some of the biggest names in the business. "If they [Reliance] identify a particular segment as high-growth they go all-out for it," says Smita Jha, an analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). "This has as much to do with the way Reliance does business as it does any overall industry trend...
There's evidence on both sides. The systems that are involved in adding emotional content include a brain structure called the amygdala, which gets activated when we experience strong emotions, particularly negative emotions, and it does influence memory systems - in particular, a structure known as the hippocampus. So there's opportunity there to influence how strongly memories get laid down. But the hippocampus is involved in both the storage as well as the retrieval of memory. Things that are emotionally charged may simply be memories that are more likely to be accessed or used...
...Supreme Court's judgment in Roe as "a great, great decision" to Laura Bush, who on the eve of her husband's inauguration said she did not think he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe, pro-choice wives have long tried to signal to voters that this particular Republican President would not focus on abortion...