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Finally, Simpson gave his version of life with Nicole Brown Simpson, whom he married in 1986 after a seven-year courtship. Most of their relationship, to hear Simpson tell it, was idyllic, filled with the luxuries that only a combination of financial wealth and true love can bestow. Said Simpson: "We traveled all over the world. Our house was always packed with people and full of friends...
After a lifetime of explanations and pronunciation lessons, would I bestow a Hebrew name on my own child? Absolutely. For the same reasons my parents used, I want my children to grow up thinking Judaism is something to wear proudly on your name...
...immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
...about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no war, and it's the audience that's trapped. In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess...
...about the Harvard class of 2000 or in such articles as New York magazine's "Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death," the discrimination with which Harvard chooses each class makes the world believe that we are situated in some society of supermen and women. Harvard has agreed to bestow its once-in-a-lifetime college experience on us, the most unique pool of students in the country. We are assumed to be the exemplars of well-roundedness, or else we might never have been granted acceptance. We cannot possibly be a mere collection of lopsided, talent-specific individuals...