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...defense would have the jury. Ten members were white -- six men and four women. Of the two non-whites, both women, one was Hispanic, one Filipino. Ranging in age from 38 to 65, the panel included a maintenance worker, a printer, a retired teacher and a retired real estate broker. Three of the jurors had worked as security guards or patrol officers in the U.S. military. Three others were members of the National Rifle Association. One was the brother of a retired L.A. police sergeant...
SINCE MY ROOMMATE threw his cards at my feet, I've watched my own collection of VendaCards grow. I have one that works in the Widener photocopiers. This is a valuable one--it works in Lamont and Hilles as well. I have another for the Science Center laser printer, and I have two for the Loeb library at the Design school. At the Loeb, I put my dollar in to get a VendaCard, but when I tried to put more money on the card, I got another one by mistake. So now one of the cards has a few dollars...
Nearly every photocopier or laser printer in the University has a different VendaCard system. There are obvious problems with this system...
This son of a Paduan carpenter, who rose to become the cynosure of every humanist eye in northern Italy, once sent a gang of thugs to bash up a printer who fell foul of him, and then had the poor man denounced for sodomy -- a crime that, in 15th century Venice, carried the death penalty. Mantegna could also be sardonic and disrespectful to tardy patrons, up to and including the Pope himself. When Innocent VIII hired him to decorate the chapel of the Villa Belvedere in the Vatican, he was puzzled to see, tacked onto allegorical roundels of the Seven...
...rare ability to stick to a schedule in his own life as well. After graduating from Kenyon College with an English major in 1980, he started working for a Pennsylvania company that printed many different magazines, including TIME. He proceeded to work his way up the paper trail from printer to engraver to plant operations manager, finally joining the editorial ranks in 1990. That kind of perseverance, plus the good-humored but relentless way he hounds us toward our deadlines each week, is one reason we somehow win the news marathon 52 times a year...