Word: barbarae
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Every time one thinks the country has wearied of O.J., evidence arises to prove that plenty of people still find the subject compelling. Books about the case keep climbing best-seller lists; erstwhile O.J. friends still give prime-time interviews to the likes of Barbara Walters; dozens of cameras greet the parade of witnesses who have been entering the courtroom since the civil trial began on Oct. 23. And last week, with Simpson on the stand, the tangled tale was back on the front pages, back on Nightline and Larry King Live, back as a staple of our dinner-table...
Certainly watching a father turn his son in because that son has killed his grandchild is heart wrenching. So was the sight of Barbara Peterson hiding her head in her son's soft fleece jacket, one she may have bought for him to wear on cool November days as co-captain of his soccer team, as she walked him into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally...
...think people who have pled guilty to avoid being indicted on other counts shouldn't be honored," said Barbara Anderson, co-director of CLTG. "If they're determined to name something after him, (we) thought the state prison would be a better image...
...Have lunch with Sonny Mehta. Find out what Knopf would give for autobiography. Be sure to mention Barbara Feinman...
...what should have been a last, sweet lap to victory across 17 states in six days first required an attempt at respectability. "We have, clearly, one more big job to do," said the President as he campaigned Friday in Santa Barbara, California. "Everybody knows the problems of campaign money today: there's too much of it, it takes too much time to raise, and it raises too many questions." A President who helped his party raise an astonishing $250 million from entities ranging from American Ambulance & Oxygen to the U.S. Tobacco Co. proposed eliminating "soft money" contributions--the unlimited donations...