and michael taylor of san francisco parks trust, and our trusty, christine gardner, who encouraged sports basement to keep up their support. if you accept this gift, we can do even more. sports basement provided give certificates in support of a fine contest call the name your favorite rec center, going on now through june 30. these are $250 gift certificates that will go to the winners of the contest. over 125 people had voted for their favorite rec center. all you have to do is go to our website, sfpt.org, and vote for your rec center, and the winners are going to get these gift certificates. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> entertain a motion. >> obviously, these are very important gifts to the department. my question is, how do we acknowledge these partners, these individuals, that give us these gifts? do we give them a sign ainge or promotional consideration, -- do we give them signage or promotional consideration, or do we give them certificates of appreciation? i want to be clear

again, i had my head down i was reading about what gordon taylor was. michael isikoff is with us. michael, as we've been watching so far, things have been going along really well. this has been a very transparent and not a very raucous type of testimony that's going on until this moment that we just saw. and still it's unclear as we see the video playing back exactly what happened inside that parliament room. >> right. it's been an extraordinary hearing. i mean, you know, rupert murdoch is this almost wizard of oz like figure somebody you hear a lot about, clearly very powerful, but very rarely seen in a setting such as this one where he has to answer questions in public. it was -- it was a really interesting performance. right in the beginning he interrupted his son, james, very smooth, very suave, harvard educated to say that this was the most humble day of his life. but then as the questioning progressed, you saw a defiant murdoch at times asked at one point if he felt he was responsible for anything that went on, he answered bluntly, no. it was others who were responsible. he

like jeff, michael also teaches at george washington university. stuart taylor will be the last but certainly not least in any member or in any way on this panel. he's currently a contributing editor to the national journal in newsweek. he's also in on president senior fellow at the brookings institution and the walls have not come down. its previously a supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and the legal commentator for the american lawyer media. he graduated from harvard law school but despite the handicap has done quite well for himself including his outstanding books on the shameful injustice of the duke lacrosse case which he co-wrote with professor casey johnson. insight from that book might be relevant today regarding the failed criminal charges for dominique or pc anthony but hopefully today we will urge

michael also teaches, but at george washington university. stewart taylor will be our last but certainly not least in any way on this panel. he's currently a contributing editor to "national journal" and "newsweek." he's also a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution and the walls have not come down. he is previously a supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and a legal commentator for the american lawyer media. he granl waited from harvard law school but despite that handicap has done quite well for himself including his outstanding book on the shameful injustice of the duke lacrosse case, which he co-wrote with professor casey johnson. insight from that book might be relevant today regarding the failed criminal charges for dominic straws kahne or casey anthony but hopefully we'll urge him to speak to the supreme court's term. let me welcome jeff to begin our program. [applause] >> thanks, todd. well, as scribes, our job is to make the supreme court term interesting and the -- it was a year where i think that mike and stewart an

. >> around midnight, debbie taylor had had a fight with her husband concerning a broken down vehicle they were in. and she was sitting here in the park, and michael was driving around, and he saw her apparently distraught, and he offered her a ride home. instead of giving her a ride home, instead he drove her to a cornfield in canterbury where he sexually assaulted her, murdered her and threw her in a riverbed and left her. >> remarkably, ross continued hiding behind a mask of normality. underneath it all, he is in some ways still a mystery to himself, unable to truly understand why he did what he did. it seems he killed as easily as he talks about it. >> he was polite. he was affable. he was not argumentative. >> psychiatrist fred berlin met and evaluated ross before his trial. he says michael ross is a sexual sadist. >> sexual sadism is like alcoholism, a craving disorder that people are having intense cravings and feeling very tempted to give in to those cravings. >> i used them. i degraded them for my own personal pleasure. had to end. >> but it didn't. after tammy williams and debra taylor, ross continued his silent connecticut killing spree