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...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
...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
...Lieberman got in trouble because he let himself live in the bubble of D.C. conventional wisdom and A-list punditry. He flattered them; and they loved him back. And as part of that club he was part of the delusion and denial that has sustained our enterprise in Iraq for the last three years. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary, A-list D.C. pundits were writing columns portraying Lieberman's possible defeat as some sort of cataclysmic event that might foreshadow a dark new phase in American politics - as though voters choosing new representation were...
...WIRE SEASON 3 DAVID SIMON IS the Balzac of Baltimore. Each season the writer-creator's sprawling HBO crime drama takes on a different social issue in the inner city--this time asking whether it's possible to break the cycle of drugs and violence. A police major (Robert Wisdom) creates a system of unofficial "free zones"--blocks where drug dealing is tacitly legalized. Meanwhile a drug kingpin (Idris Elba) tries to persuade his crew to run its drug trade like a business, with less bloodshed and more profit. The surprising--and politically and personally explosive--results on both sides...
There aren't many people at this morning's service at St. Stephen's Uniting Church, but there's much goodwill. And homespun wisdom. The congregation's grande dame is 95-year-old Ruby Coster-Martin, who over tea afterward is asked by a fellow parishioner for the secret of her robust health. "They say you live by what you eat," says Ruby, who lost her driver's license only a few months ago for driving too slowly in her test. "I have always been a vegetable and fruit eater-milk and butter, too-and I have great faith...