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• Fragile Veneer -

  Tomorrow is being commemorated as the anniversary of the Trayvon Martin Shooting in Sanford FL, where life will never be same again.
  
  The town has sacked its white police chief and hired an African American for the job. And a native of Sanford is working at the law firm [...]
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• Blackwell's Own Goal -

  Trayvon Martin Shooting;
  George Zimmerman Accused . . .
  
  The leitmotif of Friday afternoon's court session was the state's Star Witness #8. I followed the live-streamed proceedings on my laptop, but the quality of the audio I received was rather poor.
  
  The Defense Team fielded two principal motions. [...]
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• Hole In The Wall Furor -

  A Banksy mural called Bunting Boy which was hacked off a wall in north London is being put up for auction in Miami with a guide price of $500,000 to $700,000, much to the consternation of local residents across The Pond.
  
  :: Guardian :: - - ::WSVN [...]
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• SoFlo Using Social Media -

  The Miami Herald is changing
  its internet commenting system . . .
  
  "Readers who want to comment on stories will be required to log in using a Facebook account... The cloak of anonymity stifles respectful debate. We believe this change will encourage conversation - but in a safer," [...]
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• Weekend Browsing -

  Famous Literary Agent Sterling Lord has published his memoirs at the age of 92 in paperback and e-book formats, Carolyn Kellogg reports.
  
  # Rage is Back is a novel by Adam Mansbach about NYC's Graffiti Subculture; reviewed here by Geeta Dayal. An interview with the author [...]
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• Six Degrees of Ambiguity -

  IMO: Trayvon Martin, A Death By Misadventure vs
  George Zimmerman, Accused 2nd Degree Murder . . .
  
  A seemingly voluble old-fashioned Southern country lawyer put in a dramatically late appearance during the Tuesday morning proceedings which could have been straight out of Perry Mason. He had the entire courtroom [...]
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• Poking The Peacock -

  NBC News Chief Steve Capus is stepping down from that position and will be leaving the organization altogether in the near future.
  
  NBC is the target of a lawsuit by George Zimmerman's Defense for maliciously manipulating a tape recording in order to give viewers the false impression [...]
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• News Notes From Florida -

  All they ever found of Lorraine Hatzakorzian's remains was her head. No one knows what happened to the rest of her. But the authorities did discover who was driving her blue Dodge pickup truck.
  
  # George Zimmerman's lawyer has released what the defense says is a new [...]
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• News Notes From Florida -

  All they ever found of Lorraine Hatzakorzian's remains was her head. No one knows what happened to the rest of her. But the authorities did discover who was driving her blue Dodge pickup truck.
  
  # George Zimmerman's lawyer has released what the defense says is a new [...]
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• Brief Browse -

  Fans of Miami's Wacky Factor . . .
  
  will be delighted to learn that Dave Barry has a new novel making its debut called Insane City. And NPR has posted a recent interview with him.
  
  # Laura Wilson briefly reviews a clutch of crime fiction picks, [...]
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