After one day of deliberation, the jury in the securities-fraud trial of former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin is already getting uppity. Today, taking the bait from the defense’s closing argument, the jury raised questions about venue: They’re not even sure that one of the four counts is being tried in the right court.
And they're making all sorts of ridiculous requests. 
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This is some kind of anti-abortion statement, we're fairly sure.
It was all of, oh, a week ago that the public option was the major "line in the sand" imperiling health-care reform. To be sure, the public option is still a big problem just yesterday, Senator Joe Lieberman said that he'll filibuster any bill that includes it. But suddenly a new wedge issue capable of destroying the entire legislation has emerged: abortion. In order to wrangle up enough support for her historic health-care-reform bill on Saturday, Nancy Pelosi was forced to allow a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, which easily passed with the support of 64 pro-life Democrats. The Stupak-Pitts amendment, as it's known, not only prohibits the government's public option from covering abortions, but also prevents private insurers from covering abortions for people receiving government subsidies.
The stage is set for a showdown ... 
Ever since word got out that The Wall Street Journal was planning to launch a New York bureau, some people over at News Corp.'s other paper here, the New York Post, have been a little uneasy. "People want to know what it means for us, whether [Rupert Murdoch will] lose interest," one reporter told the Times, noting that the Australian media tycoon's energy lately seems to have been directed more at the broadsheet paper. The Journal has nicer offices in the News Corp. building, for example, while the Post staff languishes in dingy, unrenovated spaces a few floors away. The Journal is also going to take over a portion of the Post's state-of-the-art printing facility. And now, since the larger paper will be covering the city more closely, some people say they're worried that means there won't be room for the Post in Murdoch's New York media strategy.
But isn't it a key element? 
We ran into Social Life magazine editor Devorah Rose on Friday night at the Sixth Annual Sharing the Light Gala, a charity soirée at The Four Seasons restaurant to benefit MacDella Cooper's efforts to build schools for needy children in Liberia — and, naturally, we were unwittingly foisted into the contrived melodramas of two grown women. With an open mind, we approached Rose to ask her what she's doing with herself besides appearing on other people's reality shows. Though we've been a little hard on her for this in the past, she brightly agreed to an interview. If, of course, we'd do it in front of a camera crew for, you guessed it, a reality show.
And not just any reality show. 