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...solid reason to bar cameras from all jury deliberations [Society, Dec. 9] is the penchant of some media voices to treat the news as theater. Remember the stir over the hairdos of prosecutor Marcia Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial? Style and entertainment value can too readily top substance in some news coverage, particularly on television, and public understanding suffers as a result. If the camera caught a juror in a slumping posture, would there then be media "analysis" on clearheadedness? If cameras routinely appeared in the jury room, would sober, sensitive and sensible individuals come to regard jury duty...
Sitting down at home on a pristine white chair, she lets her two large Labradors cover her and the furniture with dog hair as they wrestle at her feet. When it's pointed out that some people might miss the old Lynne Cheney who knew how to stir up a little trouble, she says how happy she is with her new life and what a relief it is "not to have to have an opinion about everything...
...served on an attractive wooden stick. It’s surprisingly easy to write and chomp on the ear of corn at the same time, and although one kid noticeably moves his chair away, FM doesn’t seem to have caused much of a stir. By 21000, all the rows of corn have been put away. After elegantly extracting a piece of silk from FM’s pearly whites, it was time for the next course...
...When world leaders gather, they turn bustling cities into Hollywood sets. Hosts scrub 1200 year old buildings until their facades are unnaturally bright and cordon off well-swept streets to thwart protesters and terrorists. In Prague this week, there was very little stir in famous Wenceslas Square and in restaurants rows of starchy napkins stood tented at each empty place. Diners had either been deterred by police cordons or fled the city to avoid the potential traffic nightmare...
Beating drums and shaking rattles to stir the spirits, a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) mid-career fellow explained the concept of shamanism and its relevance in the modern world at a talk that drew an audience of about 40 to KSG last night...