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Johnnie Cochran is claiming victory in another contest with Marcia Clark, this time over who got the more lucrative book deal. Just days after Clark received a reported $4.2 million advance for her account of the Simpson trial, Cochran struck back with what is rumored to be a heftier contract for "My Journey to Justice: The Autobiography of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr." The Simpson trial has also been a windfall for a number of other would-be authors, including Christopher Darden ($1.7 million) and Robert Shapiro ($1.5 million). The big loser? Alan Dershowitz, who'll rake in just...
...bank, which contends that the Osaka home office was unaware of Iguchi's actions, responded with a mixture of contrition and defiance. Daiwa agreed to leave the 13 states where it has offices, which account for some 15% of the bank's international assets. But the president of Daiwa, Takashi Kaiho, lashed out at the indictments, calling them "very inappropriate," and vowed to fight the charges. At the same time, Kaiho said the bank would reappraise its foreign ventures and slash its work force from 9,600 to 7,000 employees...
Christopher Hampton, the playwright who wrote and directed Carrington, obviously believes it was the former. Yet his account of the relationship between the half-forgotten painter and the homosexual who turned biography into a modernist art form is distant and gingerly, respectful and respectable. Reason tells us that there must have been something more needy and smothering in her nature, something more grasping and careless in his, than Hampton shows us. After all, Dora did marry a handsome youth not because she was smitten with him but because Lytton was. Yet their menage a trois is presented blandly...
...OBSERVATION THAT "PERHAPS THE Serbs were bad guys but the Bosnian Muslims did their part in the bloody business of the week'' reminded me of Voltaire's account of Candide's war experience [after seeing the destruction in a village belonging to the Abares who had heroically resisted atrocities carried out by the Bulgarians]: "Candide made all the haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found that the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy.'' This great work of 1759 satire might have been fiction, but current news items reveal the same facts...
...ACCOUNT OF BEING PROPOSItioned for online sex by "Demonboy" [ESSAY, Oct. 23], Barbara Ehrenreich does not offer any answers to the question of how such easily encountered pornography affects children. Nor does she have a clue as to the questions that need to be asked. She solicits our sympathy for her mental confusion by confiding that she "actually believed" technology would solve all the isolation and disillusionment that plague society, while she is stunningly ignorant of the fact that it is our dependence on science and invention rather than on rectitude and intellectual integrity that has contributed to our catastrophic...