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...hatred for someone who seemed more at home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than that, though, it was Carlo's attitude: he couldn't stand the unsophisticated people like Larry who were supposed to be "his people," but he could never penetrate the curtain of nobles se oblige that the born-to-the-manor types put up. Even the crudest preppies--the hockey players who had gone post-graduate at Andover for a year, the ones who wore the old school but still used "very" and "fuckin" interchangeable--they never accepted him, either...
...total revenue. However, now that players have bargaining power, salary increases will cut deeply into the earnings level. While low wages virtually guaranteed a net profit to every team, even perennial losers, now the pressure is on to win. Since one cannot buy a pennant per se, but only those players whose combined skills appear to provide the magic blend, baseball owners today are involved in a more risky and expensive affair than ever before. To purchase the services of a top quality ballplayer today is much like buying a thoroughbred: if the horse lives up to its potential...
...Gesualdo had the U.S. Supreme Court to blame for his difficulties. In the past, an accused criminal wishing to be his own lawyer-to act pro se, in legal terminology-had to convince a judge that he was competent to do the job. But in 1975 the Supreme Court held that the guaranteed right to counsel includes the defendant's right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried...
...Thanks. Since Faretta, the number of pro se defenses has multiplied. Some of them have been impressive. In Plymouth, Mass., a do-it-yourself defendant, Anthony Jackson, a grade-school dropout charged with the murder of a young woman cab driver, successfully delayed his trial proceedings by arguing 45 pretrial motions himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded...
Ironically, Anthony Faretta, whose case started the boom in pro se cases, never appeared in his own behalf. Before Faretta could be tried again, the prosecutor noted that he had already served 19½ months in jail and dropped the case...