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September 21,1994 Campus News 5 Trial by Jury gets hanged Kimberly Zucker News Kricfs con^>Ued by Addie Tschamler ° Several thousand troops entered Haiti Monday k> restore democracy after Haitian leaders deckled to back down. Although the invasion is meant to be peaceful, President Clinton warned that there are stiU risks involved. Judge Lance Ito ruled Monday that evidence against OJ. Simpson in the murder of his ex-wife and one of her friends would be admitted in thetrial. The evidence is considered crucial to the case because prosecu tors will rely heavily on such data since there were no witnesses to the murders. ^ Hearings that will eventually examine US Air training opened Monday to aid investigations of US Air Flight 1016 that crashed near the Charlotte airport in July and of US Air Flight 427 that crashed in Pittsbu^ on September 8, killing 132 people. ” A recent study from London indicates that smoking kills six people eveiy minute. The findings firom the woridwide survey are pub lished in a book MsmUQIfQMilBQk: ing In Developed Countries 1950- 2000. Scientists began publishii^ the book on Tuesday at Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the World Health Organization, and the American Oincer Society. ® The first deaf Miss America was crowned Saturday night in Atlantic City, N.J. Heather Whitestone, Miss Alabama, won the crown. Whitestone's platform centers on tell ing young people that anything is possible. °WiUiam Scott Barnes pleaded guilty to accidentally shooting his best friend, Todd Stewart, at a fiatenity party near UNC-Chapel Hill. Barnes will serve five years' proba tion and do community service. For several weeks I was anxious for it came to Heasant Valley Cinemas on Friday, September 9. The next n^ht, I e^erly waited for Trial bv lurv to begin. Loaded with popcorn and a large drink, 1 sat ner vously on the edge of my seat. If only 1 had known that instead of food, all 1 needed was a huge piilow. Heywould Gould directs this less than thrilling thriller. It started off slow and only got slower. The casts consists of Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, a single mother who gets called in for jury duty. Armand Assante plays Rusty Parone, the hardore killer on trial. Gabriel Bryne is the over zealous plaintiff, GralWi, who will stop at nothing to convia Parone. William Hurt plays the crooked cop who begins falling for Valerie. Tlie plot oft he story takes much to long to develop. Parone threatens Valerie that if she will not help to acquit him, he will kill her son. To prove his power over her, he r^es her. Scared to death, she convinces the other jurors that Parone was not guilty because it was all circumstwti^ evidence. The jury is hung and Parone is released. Movie Review However, the “excitement" has only begun. Graham goes after Valerie because he realizes that Parone has threatened her. Determined suy out of it and protea her family, Valerie denies his accusations. When I^ne finds out that Graham is trying to talk to Valerie, he tries to have her killed. However, Hunt rescues her but loses his life. Having nowhere else ^ go, Valerie goes after Parone herself. To save you money and a good nap, she kills him! If for some reason this sounds inter esting, trust me—it’s not. These two hours seem to take days! Most of the movie is filled with boring court scenes and arguments in the jury room. Witnesses testify that give the audi ence no sense of what Parone has done because most of the witnesses have made a deal with the police. The rest of the time is spent with 12 people argu ing about Parone. Anyone who has ever been on jury duty knows that there is no excitement in that. The characters were as boring as the plot. They were flat and no one’s personality was fully developed. It seemed as if the direaor just scratched the surfoce and left the rest to the get involved in anyone’s life because the audience didn’t really get to know the characters. Even as Valeric the victim, we never got the chance to see how she felt inside. She kept all her feelings bottled up. Plus, she was portrayed as extremely weak and easy to take ad vantage of. Her character seemed K> have no depth. Also, the settings were often dark anddull. Most scenes took place in the courtroom, a daric bar, or Valerie’s apartment. The lighting was terrible throughout the movie. The colors or the rooms and dothing were often dark and bland. While all this was probably intended to make the movie seem more suspenseful, it only de pressed me. If you really like long and poindess courtroom scenes, jury discussions, and taking good naps, then Trial bv lurv is the movie for vou. However, if you are looking fora suspense thriller, the only suspense you will experience in Trial by lury is when it is going to end. How-to relieve stress with self-time: by Christina Peoples Findaspecial place where you feel comft>rtable. Try to pick some where with few distractions, so that yourtlioughts won’t be interrupted with your roommate asking you to dean the bathroom. On Meredith’s campus, you can sit beneath a tree near the amphitheater. The snuil chapel is also available 24 hours a dayforyoutositandthink. Ifaquiet place is not what you are looking for, beat your frustration out to the tunes from the Rolling Stones’ latest album in the pri>^cy of your own room. Treat yourself to some time with things or people that make you laugh. Laughter is theraputic and can put a smile back on yoiu &ce after a gloomy day. Sit down and laugh with your friends in the resi dence hall parior. Relax and unwind with a half hour or so of your fovorite sitoms. (After watching George’s problems onSeinfeld. mine never seem to matter.) Reading the comics sec tion of the News and Observer can. really make you feel good. (I love to laugh at Calvin's zany pretending and Cathy’s worry over her weight.) Any thing that gives you that free feeling that laughter supplies, do it! ® Read a book or magazine of your choosing. It may sound crazy to you after all of the reading you are ex pected to do for your classes, but hav ing the freedom to choose can be very relaxing in itself Reading a novel about a far-away place and time or riding the coatuils of the stars on the pages of a magazine can take your mind off the real worid and your immediate stress. ° Spill your emotions across a fresh p^e. You can write a poem about your feelings in a form that you feel is appropriate. A journal is a daily, creative method of releasing your stress at the end of the day. Writing a letter to someone who cares about you can remove a bur den from your shoulders through sharing what has happened th» day. ® Lie down inadark, quiet place without disruption. You can go to sleep, but you don't iiave to. Lock your door, take the phone off the hook (if it is important, they will call back), and adjust the blinds to let a minimal amount of light in. Close your eyes, curi up in a blanket, and just breathe in and out over and over^in until you dearyour mind.
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