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After dinner one recent night, family an friends were discussing their views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going...
...hunger in their encounters, and inexplicable need, and, for the audience, the joy of seeing two handsome people heedlessly enjoying one another. For reasons that probably have something to do with its grim and murky plot, the picture was, in Hollywood-speak, a commercial "disappointment." But contra the received wisdom (mostly emanating from people who don't go very often to them), movies need to be sexy. This is, I think, the prime source of their best energy, and for years now - we're no longer merely talking about summer '06 here - American films have largely been prim and sniggering...
...Fear a Jury of Your Peers Most people think that juries are more likely than judges to let defendants off the hook. The conventional wisdom, however, may be dead wrong
...That at least is the conventional wisdom, and probably what provoked Grasso's lawyers to appeal when a judge ruled that he alone would decide whether 190 million big ones were unreasonable pay for the head of a nominally not-for-profit corporation like the stock exchange. (The lawyers have decided not to comment, having failed to amuse the judge with past quips to the press.) If the answer is yes, as New York Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Eliot Spitzer contends, then Grasso must pay back most of the money. If it's no, then the case moves...
...thing about conventional wisdom, though, is that it's not always right. And in this case, according to a new study by professor Andrew Leipold at the University of Illinois College of Law, it's dead wrong, at least in federal criminal trials. Though Grasso's case is a civil action in state court, the study's findings are so dramatic that they make you wonder why he or any other defendant would let a jury near a case...