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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...
Moises' rhetoric is overblown: the Zapatistas are thought to have a few hundred fighters at most, and few officials in Mexico City take such threats seriously. But neither, as they struggle to cope with the wreckage of Mexico's economy, can they dismiss the Chiapas rebels as irrelevant. The best the Zedillo government can hope for is to reduce the rebels' support through continued political and economic concessions. Given the region's poverty, that could take considerable time--and funds. ``I can't deny that more roads and schools are an advance,'' says Pablo Romo, an aide to Roman Catholic...
...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...