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...JUDGE. Aside from Judge Lance Ito's lax hand on the whip, which allowed the lawyers to grill witnesses endlessly and argue and reargue points of law, Professor Barbara Babcock of Stanford Law School observes that Judge Ito was often late to arrive and took time to usher celebrities into his chambers. "If you sequester a jury, there should be pressure on everyone to go as fast as you can," she says. "I've never seen a sequestered jury treated this way. I think the message they got was that neither their time nor they were important." Motions should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LESSONS OF THE TRIAL | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

Young Soo Jo '96 of Eliot House served as an usher. "I thought it was very powerful and it made me revalue what I thought about culture and Christianity," he said. "He was able to fill the audience with his enthusiasm...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Charles Adams Inspires Mem. Church Audience | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

...Committee on College Life, making her one of the most significant council members to students at large. And Paul K. Kim '96, the only four-year council veteran in either race, has unchallenged integrity and commitment to student interests. We hope these four council members will stay on to usher the body through a successful year of reinvention and of helping students...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Our Team: Feeney and Coffey | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

...every kind, this trial must be tried," the jury and their powerful voices are easily swayed by the truthful testimony and trim ankles of the plaintiff. Like the female chorus of would-be brides(maids), the male chorus is a mighty foursome of harmony and ham. As the usher, Thomas Munro is up to the task of keeping them and his own monumental pronouncements in line...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Trial of Sir Arthur's Century | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

...father was a plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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