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...crime scene, in his car and at his home. Defense attorneys say the blood was either contaminated by police incompetence, making DNA tests unreliable, or planted by Fuhrman and Vannatter. To support the latter claim, they point out that blood disappeared from the lab sample taken from Simpson's arm for comparison purposes in the DNA tests. A nurse originally testified that the sample contained around 8 cc of blood on June 13, but according to defense testimony it lost 1.5 cc of blood during the police investigation. The defense postulates--but without evidence--that Vannatter took the vial...
...boxing world received a shot in the arm with the return of Mike Tyson to the ring. Iron Mike didn't disappoint in his debut, recording a first-round knockout against a marginally-worthy opponent, Peter McNeely...
...there also have also been a few disturbing developments. Some of the services of ESPNet, the sports network's internet arm, now require a monthly fee for user access. Information that was free three months ago is now available only on a pay basis...
...come out of the U.N. women's conference in Beijing is that China is run by a band of ill- mannered male chauvinist control freaks. The major U.S. news outlets have dwelt, with morbid fascination, on the abuses of women in China, from forced sterilization to the strong-arm tactics of the Chinese police. This is valuable information, especially for the one-quarter of the world's women who are Chinese. But did 40,000 women have to travel to Beijing just to confirm what one man, Harry Wu, more or less established a couple of weeks...
...tall. In my mind's eye, I am leaning out the window of our apartment, and I spot him coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes-out stride. He is whistling and stops to greet the druggist, the baker, our building super, almost everybody he passes. To some kids on the block he is a faintly comical figure...