Word: woodwards
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Get ready for the "Free Louise Woodward" campaign. The British au pair was sentenced to the mandatory life in prison Friday morning after being convicted of second-degree murder a day earlier...
...verdict shocked court observers, who had expected the lengthy jury deliberation and a poor prosecution performance to result in a not-guilty verdict. Much of the U.K., where the trial has received gavel-to-gavel coverage, was aghast at the result. "The only 12 people who believe Louise Woodward is guilty are the 12 people on the jury," said defense lawyer Andrew Good. "I'm at a loss to understand how anyone in their right mind could come to this verdict...
...Certainly Woodward, who tearfully maintained her innocence before the judge, would agree. But Deborah Eappen, the baby's mother, prefaced the sentencing with an emotional (and rather gratuitous) assertion that the British teen "didn't seem like a monster, or a child abuser or a murderer." To which her husband Sunil added: "I think that Louise has done a brutal thing ... I truly hope that she may someday find the peace of God in her life again...
...Matthew McCue, family friend of and spokesperson for Deborah and Sunil Eappen, on the perception that the public and the media have sided with British au pair Louise Woodward because the Eappens are doctors in prosperous Newton, Mass. Woodward, 19, is currently on trial in Cambridge for the murder of the Eappens' 8-month-old son, Matthew...
Inside the paper, the Times' very dominance may help foster a certain arrogance and complacency. The Times has been slow to jump on some major stories, notably the campaign-finance scandals in Washington (where the Washington Post's Bob Woodward has had some big scoops). Concedes Lelyveld: "We were too slow off the mark." Its big, serioso reporting projects are sometimes lumbering: a seven-part series in March of 1996 on middle-class people who had been downsized out of a job was vivid and affecting but late; it came out just as economic statistics were highlighting job growth...