First daughter, new teacher?

Think boarding school and Bush.

Andover and George W.? Yes.

SEED School and Jenna? Maybe.

The president's daughter, who just got married and moved to South Baltimore, has applied for a job teaching at the Baltimore public boarding school, which will serve a very different population from the prepsters at Dad's alma mater.

(SEED School of Maryland, only the second public boarding school in the nation, will teach 80 disadvantaged students from around the state.)

At least I've heard Jenna Bush had applied, which is what I told school director Carol Beck when I reached her by phone yesterday.

"You did," Beck said.

Long pause.

"Not sure it's final yet," she said.

Maybe Mrs. Henry Hager doesn't have the job yet, but she's applied, right?

"I just want to make sure how far along the process is," replied Beck, who said she'd call back with more info.

Never heard back. And the White House declined to comment. But it sure sounds like Jenna has thrown her hat in the ring.

Members of the jury, what do you watch?

David Simon just might achieve his dream of jury nullification.

In a forthcoming federal trial in Baltimore, potential jurors have been asked if they've ever seen The Wire.

The questionnaire also asked what they thought of the HBO drama, whose war-on-drugs-weary creators vowed, in a March Time magazine essay, to vote to acquit in any nonviolent drug case.

So say two people who received the questionnaire, which also asked more traditional questions like, "What do you think of police?" and "What do you think of the death penalty?"

The case is before U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles. I asked the judge if jury questionnaires reference The Wire in every case, or just the one at hand.

The judge was willing to say this much, via a law clerk: "Jury questionnaires are formulated by the attorneys and approved by the judge. They're used to ask questions by which they can gauge the attitudes of potential jurors. The attorneys in this case thought they might have something to glean about whether a potential juror watches The Wire."

The clerk declined to identify the case. I understand it's a death penalty trial involving drugs, murder and Latrobe Homes - a familiar story to anyone with HBO.

You talk dirty at Loyola, just own up to it

Mark McKenna, Loyola College Class of 2008, goes on the record: Lesley Stahl really did use that naughty, feline, five-letter word in her commencement address.