Word: trialing
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Campaigning for the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chinese officials offered vague assurances about learning to respect human rights. But the lessons have not sunk in. Hu Jia, an imprisoned writer, will soon stand trial on the un-Jeffersonian charge of "inciting subversion of state power." His apparent crime: writing a statement saying that the skyscrapers and venues on display in Beijing from Aug. 8 to 24 rest on a foundation of "tears, imprisonment, torture and blood." Hu's co-author, Teng Biao, was plucked from the street by four men in plainclothes and interrogated for 41 hours...
...Aljawhary ’09, the media attention surrounding the Harvard administration’s decision to implement a trial run for women-only gym hours at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) has her both surprised and stressed...
...chickens are discarded, falls into agricultural management practices of my client. And we’ve had—we’ve litigated this issue before in this county with respect to my client and how it handles its manure.” When the trial judge questioned whether there is a difference between manure and live animals, the company’s lawyer pointed to current laws and replied, “No, your honor...
...likethat.” Or you can just act crazy.RR: What is your angriest scene in the play?DC: Well, fi rst of all, there’s only one scene in the play. The angriest is probablywhen I’m being accused of not caring about the trial, and then I realize that I don’tcare about the trial. That makes me sort of a crappy person.RR: When’s the last time you were really angry?DC: I’m a pretty mellow person. I mean, I’m not wearing...
...Jury nullification is American dissent, as old and as heralded as the 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger, who was acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, and absent a government capable of repairing injustices, it is legitimate protest. If some few episodes of a television entertainment have caused others to reflect on the war zones we have created in our cities and the human beings stranded there, we ask that those people might also consider their conscience. And when the lawyers or the judge or your fellow jurors seek explanation, think for a moment...