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Upon opening the envelope, I discovered that the Massachusetts Office of Jury Commissioner desperately needed to replace whoever was currently in charge of public relations. In addition to the stern “Jury duty: Your civic obligation,” jury duty has at least two other uninspiring mottos...
The idea for the new novel came from the case of Alejandro Hernandez, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 rape and murder of a young girl. Turow was alerted to the case by a friend. When he read the evidence--which largely rested on a single sentence in...
Let's call him Joe. Like a lot of kids, he learned to ride a bike when he was 5 or 6. By his 20s, Joe was cycling 10 or more hours a week. He noticed an uncomfortable numbness in his genital area from time to time, particularly after long...
But in the Warsaw ghetto, German evil learned to manipulate Jewish hope and turn it into a Nazi tool of management. It was hope--the faintest, most tantalizing, vanishing glimmers of it--that led the victims on from day to day. Surely the worst is over now, they repeatedly told...
The final wild card is Louisiana. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is leading, but the state has a unique "open primary" on Election Day in which all candidates from all parties are thrown together on one ballot. (It's like Mardi Gras with debates.) If no one gets 50%--and there...