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COVER STORY
Law & Order
Kurt Andersen and author Scott Turow explore the connections
between art and the law.
  TV
& The Law
Most of us know the inside of a courtroom not through
experience but through reading novels, or watching movies and television.
Jacquie Gales Webb tracks the evolution of TV law--to see how those dramas
compare with the real thing.
Go to the Perry Mason page at the Museum of Broadcasting
Communicationse
Go to NBC's page on Law & Order
Go to Bob Jarvis's Prime Time Law at Carolina Academic
Press
 Courthouse
Design
Federal courthouses have become showpieces of contemporary
architecture. But at the municipal level, courts remain mostly humble
or strangely designed buildings. Studio 360's Michele Siegel found an
example of the worst and of the best in local law buildings.
Go to Pei Cobb Freed's page on the Queens Family Courthouse
Go to a Metropolis magazine article about federal
courthouse design
 The
Exonerated
The former Attorney General Janet Reno said that the
Exonerated will do more to promote justice than any literary effort she
knows. It's a play that features the real life stories of people who were
arrested, tried, and committed to death row for years--before having their
sentence overturned. Trey Kay tells the story of how the Exonerated came
to the stage, and where it's going now.
Go to 45 Bleecker's page on The Exonerated
Go to the Center on Wrongful Convictions
Go to the Innocence Projects
 Police
Sketch
Stephen Mancusi has been a police forensic artist
for 19 years. Mancusi has to conjure up the face of the suspect, often
from the memories of a crime victim who is uncertain in what he or she
saw. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to Stephen Mancusi's website
SPECIAL GUEST
Scott Turow
In 1987 Scott Turow launched the rebirth of the legal
thriller with his first novel, Presumed Innocent. He's since written five
more bestsellers including Reversible Errors, which came out last fall.
Throughout his writing career he has continued to practice law in Chicago,
the town where he grew up.
Go to Scott Turow's official website
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CARNEGIE HALL. The New York Philharmonic announced
this week that it's moving out of Lincoln Center, where it has performed
since the place opened 41 years ago and returning to Carnegie Hall,
a half mile south. As Sara Fishko explains, this latest change shaking
the classical musical world may also be a return to common sense.
Go
to the New York Philharmonic's website
Go
to Lincoln Center's official website
Go
to Carnegie Hall's official website
See
and hear more stories on the New York Philharmonic move at WNYC.org
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