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Serving on the jury changed my life. I could do a sociological study on the race, gender and sexual orientation of the jurors and how it played out during deliberations; I could rant about how important a good lawyer and judge are for justice to work, or muse on how my impressions of the jurors changed when we started deliberating...
...team. And there was enough good news for Republicans last week-the selection of John Edwards didn't help Kerry's standing in the polls very much; the Hollywood wing of the Democratic Party staged a Kerry fund raiser in New York City featuring a crude anti-Bush rant by Whoopi Goldberg-to give the President's strategists some hope. But this election isn't going to be about trial lawyers or Hollywood. It is going to be about Iraq. And the question is not so much whether the American President has spoken clearly but whether he has thought clearly...
...explain the behavior some retailers are seeing in the soap-and-detergent aisle. "I don't like to use the word addiction, but customers become fanatical about this stuff," says Cindy Cooper, proprietor of 560 Main, the shop in Pleasanton where Kimberly Wendt replenishes her cleaning supplies. Customers "rant and rave," says Charles Conn, a merchandiser at Whole Foods Market in downtown New York City. "I hear them say that 'Mrs. Meyer's made me like doing the dishes...
Greenspan's most jarring rant was his call for Social Security reform. He wants to cut future payouts and delay the age at which people can collect. He would shrink future checks by indexing annual adjustments to an inflation gauge that runs a half point below the Consumer Price Index now used. He didn't offer a new retirement age, but 70 is a nice round number...
Will Hugo carry out his suicide by cigarette? Is Bellatrix in fact his flesh and blood? Why does he insist on being such a jerkface? All compelling questions, but the real fun is watching Hugo squirm and rant like a crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness...