Perhaps," said Judge Hatchett, who spent 13 years meting out justice in Fulton County Juvenile Court in Atlanta before presiding over her own show.
JUST before presiding over the swearing-in of his newly shuffled cabinet on July 19th, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso welcomed a more famous and infinitely more popular team: Brazil's national football side, victors of this year's Copa America.
"Oh, no!" Mr. Harris said in an interview a few minutes before presiding.
"He betrayed us," he said of the congressman in late May, two days before presiding over a fund-raising event for Mr. Bradley in Spartanburg.
The event was conducted in the manner of a coroner's inquest before presiding jurists John Dowd and Keith Suter, with former NSW director of public prosecutions Nick Cowdery as counsel assisting.
Richard S. Fuld Jr., who bolstered the Lehman Brothers empire before presiding over its collapse; Angelo R. Mozilo, whose Countrywide Financial thrived by peddling dubious mortgages; and E. Stanley O'Neal, who pushed Merrill Lynch into ultimately disastrous bets, have rarely discussed their roles in the crisis.
Mr. Wilson, who battled a severe recession in his first term before presiding over a sharp recovery, nevertheless remains controversial in California, where his strong stands against affirmative action and illegal immigration provoked a backlash.
What about Dick Fuld (left), the Lehman Bros bank boss, who piled investors' money into property and raked in some $300m for the Fuld family coffers before presiding over the precipitous collapse of his bank?
Before presiding over a signing ceremony today for an international treaty that seeks to stiffen the ways countries fight transnational organized crime, Secretary General Kofi Annan paid tribute to Palermo's efforts to overcome what he described as "the organized criminality that tarnished the name of their beautiful city for many years".
A visibly exhausted police chief David Brown, a third-generation African American man of Dallas who had lost a son, a brother and a patrol partner to violent deaths even before presiding over Thursday's catastrophe, was greeted with rapturous applause as he updated the crowd on his investigation.
