For the Love of Jury Duty.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 24-SEP-07

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The celebrities assembled last week by the Postal Service to launch a new stamp in honor of jury duty had one thing in common: none had ever served on a jury. "I've been down here, but I was never picked," Bernadette Peters said, as she waited for the ceremony to begin, in the rotunda of the New York County Courthouse building downtown. Ditto Cindy Adams, the Post gossip columnist. Paulina Porizkova, the model, recalled, "When I was called, I was pregnant, and I wasn't hormonally...

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