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...Republican women like Misty Penrod, a registered nurse and single mother from Kettering, Ohio, may also be convinced to get more actively involved in the McCain campaign because of the pick. "I'm very excited by it," said Penrod, who has two young children and traveled to the rally Friday. "She knows daycare issues. She has a disabled child. She knows healthcare issues. She's a very good choice...
Four hours after the Bush-Gore press conference, Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust team, filed a motion with Judge Thomas Penrod Schofield calling for the breakup of the existing Democratic and Republican parties into twelve different entities (including Buchananites, Golfing Republicans, Squishy Libs, Nader Greens, Anxious NASDAQs, Reagan Dems, Evangelical Christians, Seattle Street Nuts and Libertarians...
...biggest mistake, say some legal experts, may have been in talking too freely with the jurors in the first place. "Judge Ito has had more conversation with the jurors than is typically the case,'' says Steven Penrod, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. "Some judges would maintain a greater distance. I think it's clear that they don't hold him in reverence, as most jurors do with the judges they encounter.'' But Thomas Hafemeister of the National Center for State Courts, who studies jury stress, believes Ito has been doing the right thing to avoid...
What Ito will try to do is placate the jury without tainting their deliberations. Now that he has allowed the panelists to air their grievances, "to put the genie back in the bottle is much more difficult,'' says Minnesota's Penrod. "If I were in his situation, I would bring the jury in and underscore the seriousness of their undertaking and the fact that their attention really needs to be fastened on the courtroom.'' Then, perhaps, the judge could do a better job of picking up the pace and give them something to hold their attention from one grueling...
...billion or less, and it could keep right on shrinking until they are no longer "big rich," as Texans refer to the truly wealthy. The brothers are fighting a complex and heated battle with creditors to retain control of the two pillars of their crumbling empire, Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling...