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...ARTICLE "MAKING THE CASE" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 16], we said that in August 1994, O.J. Simpson's lawyers discussed a plea bargain for manslaughter. We said one source said Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro and "F. Lee Bailey, the legendary trial lawyer brought on by Shapiro, were willing to entertain the idea." F. Lee Bailey denies that he ever considered the idea of a plea bargain. In fact, Mr. Bailey maintained the innocence of his client throughout the trial...
...those enduring symbols of the 20th century, melancholy exiles whose portable lives are light on possessions but heavy with memories. That Nabokov gave wings to his own past is reaffirmed by the publication of this long-overdue volume, an authentic literary event and, even at $35, the reading bargain of the year...
...approved the deal, which, according to Felix, included an unwritten agreement that Greene would not be promoted. But in March, Felix learned that a promotion board--headed by Zlatoper--had recommended that Greene be made a rear admiral. Feeling the Navy had failed to keep its end of the bargain, she began formal proceedings against her ex-boss. The Navy proposed settling the case with a private punishment--perhaps a permanent written reprimand in Greene's personnel file. Greene, however, chose to face the military tribunal in an attempt to clear his name publicly...
STEPHEN GILLERS LAW PROFESSOR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY "ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE REMINDED OF THE uncomfortably close relationship between justice and money. If Simpson were middle-class or merely rich, good defense lawyers confronting the mass of scientific evidence and police testimony against him would have pressed for a plea bargain. Although the Simpson trial is to trials like Mount Everest is to a child's sand castle, unrealistic defendants may not appreciate that their court-appointed or bargain-basement lawyers lack both the talent of a Johnnie Cochran and the investigative resources of an O.J. Simpson. An acquittal...
...other museums watched with interest, on Sept. 16 Denver auctioned off 1,500 items--to the glee of bargain hunters and the dismay of some descendants of the museum's benefactors. Says George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska: "What Denver has done is quite new and very bold." And lucrative. The auction raised...