Word: secretly
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...Sure, technically he won't be in attendance, and the betting is he could be ousted within a week. Blagojevich has made no secret of his disdain for the proceedings, calling the trial (which is separate from the ongoing federal criminal probe) the equivalent of a lynching and his inability to call witnesses a "trampling of the Constitution." But his outrageous media appearances and unpredictable moves have kept Blagojevich the unrivaled star of his own reality show, making the jury of his peers in state government look feckless by comparison. (See a gallery of politicians caught in scandals...
...fence, while we watch and pretend to get tired. Grisham doesn't try to glamorize it - in fact he works very hard to de-glamorize the way corporate litigation is practiced at high-dollar New York firms - but somehow it has the opposite effect. You're peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for? (Read TIME's 10 Questions for John Grisham...
...Kyle McAvoy isn't any ordinary first-year associate. He has an ugly secret in his past: when he was in college at Duquesne, he and three other fraternity brothers were involved in an incident with a girl who may or may not have been passed out drunk while two of the frat boys had sex with her. Kyle has an ugly secret in his present, too: he may or may not have been there during, and hence implicated in, this possible-rape, but either way there's a video of the whole scene, and a mysterious organization is using...
...really a relic of the American past, one as sentimental and archaic as a Norman Rockwell painting. In a passage that appears, oddly, twice, as dialogue in two different characters' mouths, Grisham attempts to awe us with the high-level security surrounding Scully & Pershing's ultra-secret document room: "Pass codes change every week. Passwords every day, sometimes twice a day." I work for a magazine, and my e-mail password changes every 30 seconds. Where are the biometrics? Likewise Grisham thinks we need to be told that cubicles are nicknamed "cubes," and requests our amazement at the fact that...
...secret that professional sport is a commercial enterprise. Sure, there's the love of the game, but no one would ever get to see that love in action without TV commercials and endorsements and sponsorships. In some cases, of course - the World Series, say, or the Olympics - one could argue that television networks and corporate sponsors are merely covering, inflating and capitalizing on an event that was going on regardless...