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Though his first jury in April did not reach a verdict, the second panel needed just five hours of deliberation before handing down its decision on each of the two counts...
David Procopio, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, said the office was pleased with the verdict...
...Council (ICC), after a series of biomechanic tests, ruled the delivery "illegal" and told Muralitharan to shelve it or face a 12-month ban from the game. Though he insists his action is legal and will be vindicated, Muralitharan has not bowled the doosra in a match since the verdict. Rajapakse has threatened to take the ICC to court, claiming that it is the Sri Lankan government's duty "to protect one of our national treasures." And last week, the Sri Lankan cricket board made a formal request to the ICC to change the rules to allow for Muralitharan...
With the years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success--charm, acting, oratory--have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980--and it turned out that he meant them--and he wrote most...
...summer has been friendlier to escapist confections like The O.C. and, especially, reality series. Then again, consider how many great reality-show moments--tribal councils, boardrooms--are just people sitting around talking. As on many reality shows, The Jury ends in a dramatic "reveal": a flashback, after the verdict, to the crime (or noncrime), which lets the audience see whether the jury got it right. It makes for provocative, thoughtful endings, the kind that could just make The Jury real enough to succeed. --By James Poniewozik