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...Hanoukai verdict provoked little of of the turmoil attending the acquittals of Lorena and John Bobbitt and the hung juries of the Menendez brothers. But critics charge that all these legal proceedings illustrate the same trend: juries are increasingly willing to make allowances for mitigating circumstances once considered largely irrelevant -- abused spouses who kill, violated children who murder incestuous parents, victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome driven to violence by disturbing flashbacks...
...judge, their first contact since their uncomfortable meeting last year, then got on the phone to the two losing candidates. Babbitt was able soon after to joke with friends about his experience. "I knew I had been cut," he told them, "when George Stephanopoulos referred to me as 'Secretary Bobbitt...
...tabloid TV crews, rested after their exertions over Joey Buttafuoco, Tonya Harding, Michael Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, have rushed back into the trailer park of American sleaze. Is it fair that the President should be vulnerable to lurid my-word-against-his-wo rd charges that might be made by anyone with an impulse to become famous by sliming the mighty...
Americans inhabit, so to speak, two parallel realities. There is the virtual reality created by media spinning and cultural circuses and gladiatorial spectacles of exemplary pseudomoral combat (Harding v. Kerrigan, Bobbitt v. Bobbitt) -- an intimate cartoonish universe where the member is severed and sewn back on. And then there is the reality of . . . reality. Places like, say, Bosnia and Haiti belong to the reality of reality...
...There's a chip on his shoulder these days that, when he digs deeper than Bobbitt-Harding-Menendez for material, puts an unpleasant defensive spin on the observations. We laugh, sure, and marvel...