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Hudock's view may be tainted by sour grapes: Ligon was acquitted. But the prosecutor's objections cannot be totally dismissed. Courtroom trials have become TV's hottest reality-programming trend. Forty-four states currently allow cameras in the courtroom, with varying degrees of restrictions (New York's law has just expired, as legislators argue over proposed revisions to it). And starting next month, TV will for the first time be allowed into some federal courts, on an experimental basis, for civil trials...
...know about how Washington politics and American business work, though admittedly next to nothing about the Soviet Union. If Gorbachev pursues real economic change and there are deals to be made with him, Strauss can help close them. Of course, if reform stalls again and bilateral relations sour, Strauss could be out of business...
...young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page 61, the mother takes over, and suddenly the book takes flight...
...stream-of-consciousness style--the entire story takes, place in the mind of a pitcher during one at-bat. In addition, the language used in this story is pretentious and unlikely--would a pitcher really refer to those "whose crayon mouths masticate rubbery soft and juices boil over like sour...
Much of the anger was directed at the Corporation, Harvard's secretive primary governing board, which was widely perceived as out of touch with student concerns. Feelings had grown so sour, one former official remembers, that the Corporation delegated much of its responsibility to the Board of Overseers, a secondary governing board elected by alumni...