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To: Ilaine who wrote (56634)	11/26/2000 8:05:20 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Good for you. Making history come alive. For those 15 people in the country who are able to view this all dispassionately (no, I'm not one of them!) it's an extraordinary study in raw, naked use of political and legal power on both sides for the sole purpose of winning at any cost, not for the purpose any more of finding truth. Question: would this be possible if lawyers truly believed the concept that the law is a profession which should be approached with dignity and objectiveness? IMO, under the English legal system where many or most lawyers represent both prosecution and defense almost indiscriminately, I don't think this whole experience would be possible. What, IMO, we are seeing is the culmination of the rise of "Rambo" lawywering. Of course, maybe I idealize the past practices of lawyers, who were always scallywags. But maybe not.

To: Ilaine who wrote (56634)	11/27/2000 9:35:47 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 71178

Your boys are so fortunate to be able to take these trips, and hopefully, they'll remember them since they are older and smarter. than ours were when we did that. We travelled a lot when the boys were small, thinking they would really get a grasp for history and geography. Our friends were envious, the teachers filled with admiration for our efforts. It didn't work. We flew around so much that Ammo's grasp of the world is that it's a big Mr Rogers type neighborhood. He once invited a kindergarten friend to go to the lake with us without telling me. The little boy's mother called to thank us and get the details and I had to explain that the lake was in Ohio and that Ammo jjust didn't quite understand that it wasn't like going to WHite Rock Lake down the street. To him, Boston was next door to San Francisco, the Washington Monument and Pearl Harbor were within walking distance of each other. Plymouth Rock and Stonehenge are closely related. He had no idea that England was across an ocean- he probably still thinks it's next to the lake. The only place that was a complete, total success and is still recalled vividly was Alcatraz. OH- and the trip to Ripley's in San Francisco. Very educational. We had Ammo tested for ADD when he was about 7. I was allowed to observe him taking the Wechsler IQ because at the time I was in grad school thinking I wanted to be a diagnostician when I grew up. (That lasted a semester) . It was mortifying. Here was a kid who had walked the Freedom Trail, been to North Church, visited Paul Revere's home, stood at the top of Bunker Hill, whose own ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and when asked who America fought in the Revolutionary War, he said, "I don't know...Russia?"