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Cochran is quick to dismiss what promises to be one of the biggest challenges for the defense: Simpson's alleged pattern of past abuse. ``[The prosecution] has tried to tear him down piece by piece,'' he insists, ``but O.J. is not charged with getting into an altercation with his wife on Jan. 1, 1989. That matter was litigated in the courts, and it is over.'' Cochran also intends to stress the timing of the murders, using what he calls a ``commonsense'' approach. ``When did the person--who would be totally covered with blood--have time to dispose...
...worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second Wave ideologues" (that is, Industrial Revolution dinosaurs, not clued in to the "Third Wave," the knowledge revolution). "Rather than being a centrifugal force helping to tear society apart, cyberspace can be one of the main forms of glue holding together an increasingly free and diverse society." The key to a "secure...
...Johnson & Johnson subsidiary says it will plead guilty tomorrow to obstructing a federal probe of how it marketed Retin-A, an acne drug commonly prescribed as a wrinkle remover. The firm, Ortho Pharmaceuticals of Raritan, N.J., agreed to pay $7.5 million in fines and dismiss three senior employees who shredded documents sought by investigators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched its investigation in 1991, concerned that Ortho had been promoting Retin-A for a non-approved use as a wrinkle cream...
...wiped away with the simple stroke of a bureaucrat's pen. Homosexuals are not accepted in society by many Americans. This fact can only be changed over time, if it is to be changed at all. To force such a drastic change on the military would be to dismiss entirely the primary purpose of the armed forces. The military is designed to win wars as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. It is a not a laboratory in which social engineers may perform their experiments at will...
...Little Rock Hotel in 1991, when he was Arkansas governor. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said that allowing the case to proceed now would "interfere with the conduct of the duties of the office" of president. Still, contrary to the efforts of Clinton attorneys, Wright wouldn't dismiss the case and permitted Jones' attorneys to gather sworn statements from witnesses. Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed the lawsuit two days before the three-year statute of limitations had run out, something the judge noted in deciding that there's no urgency in proceeding with the case...