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...deliberations, a jury convicted Daniel Green of the 1993 killing of James Jordan, the father of Chicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan. Green's defense was based on the testimony of four witnesses who said he was watching television when Jordan was killed. But District Attorney Johnson Britt pointed out that all four were family friends and came forward only after the trial began. For jurors, the decision may have been aided by a video Green made of himself wearing Jordan's watch and jewelry. Both Green and his accomplice, Larry Demery, who pled guilty to involvement in the killing...
...public was favored with novels by, yes, Joan Collins, Ivana Trump, Martina Navratilova, Britt Ekland and supermodel Naomi Campbell, whose publisher provided her with a 250-word synopsis of her book so that she would be able to discuss it with reporters. Fabio has published fiction too. "He was fabulous on ideas," says Ellen Edwards, who edited the chesty male model...
...good news for shoppers is that hard-pressed retailers across the country are already slashing prices to bring people into their stores. "Consumers tell us that 50% off is what it will take to motivate them," says C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, which studies consumer behavior. Predicts Carl Steidtmann, chief economist for Management Horizons, the retail-consulting arm of Price Waterhouse: "This will be the most promotional Christmas in a decade. Most stores are in far worse financial shape than their customers...
...twisting the arms of the networks and local stations -- which, after all, are in the business of making money, not doing good deeds. "I don't think [the state of children's TV] has anything to do with any villainy on anybody's part," says ctw president David Britt. "It just has to do with the conventional wisdom that unless somebody makes us, it isn't in our economic interest to do educational programming for kids...
...five were columnists Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune and Donna Britt of The Washington Post in the commentary-column writing category; Michael Gartner, editor and chairman of The Daily Tribune in Ames, Iowa, for editorial writing; staff writer Anne Hull of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times for non deadline writing; and Ken Wells, senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, for headline writing...