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Just how carefully balanced does a jury have to be in order to render a fair verdict -- not to mention one that the public will believe is fair? In language dating back to the Magna Carta, the English common-law tradition promises defendants a jury of their "peers." The U.S. Constitution mandates "an impartial jury," and American law requires that it be drawn from a representative cross section of the community...
...Steffan enjoyed his sweet vindication, the new policy toward gays, folded into Congress's proposed $261 billion military budget, reached the Oval Office for the President's signature. Caught off guard by the court's verdict, Pentagon spokeswoman Kathleen DeLaski insisted that the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy was still on track because the Steffan decision applied to the old 1982 policy, which in effect warns gays, "Don't even think about it." But White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers vaguely allowed that the ruling does have implications for the new policy...
...wobbly? Interestingly, Grunbaum himself thinks all is not lost, although his verdict is not entirely cheering: "I categorically don't believe Freud is dead. The question is, Are they trustworthy explanations? Have the hypotheses been validated by cogent, solid evidence? My answer to that...
...delicately and condemned her as an avenging harridan. But when the case was stripped dry of emotional content, the contradictions and inconsistencies in testimony left more than a reasonable doubt as to what transpired in the hours before Lorena emasculated John. In just four hours the jury rendered the verdict: not guilty...
...poor Clinton, who would really rather have this issue just go away, finds that Congress' upcoming vote on the treaty has been turned into yet another referendum on his Presidency (how many referenda do we need before we can agree that the verdict is thumbs-down...