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...that the 20-year-old Louise actually has that kind of money. As it turned out, she never sold her story to the tabloids; no U.K. book or movie deal was proposed either before or after Judge Young's earlier edict banning that kind of profiteering (an order which was, in any case, legally unenforceable across the pond). And there are plenty of other distinctions between O.J.'s civil trial and Woodward's, not least of which is that the au pair was actually convicted the first time around -? albeit of manslaughter rather than murder. A jury may decide...
...Iran hasn't actually lifted the late Ayatollah Khomeini's religious decree ordering Rushdie's death, it has said that it will not support the $2.5 million reward offered by a private foundation, and that it won't carry out the death sentence. "A fatwa is simply a religious edict, but this one's power came from the fact that it had been endorsed by a government," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Britain would not have restored diplomatic relations severed over the Rushdie issue unless they were convinced Iran was serious." So, while Rushdie may still...
...sell land to Jews would also be applied to Arabs with Israeli citizenship. "The Palestinian justice system will apply to them, no matter where they are," said Medein, "and they will be bought to justice in one way or another." TIME's Jamil Hamad reports that the new edict may be behind the recent unsolved murders of two Palestinian land dealers. Hamad says the new Palestinian call for the death penalty would have been unthinkable if the peace accords were moving forward. But with no hope for progress in sight, it's just another manifestation of Palestinian anger and frustration...
...ethnic Tutsi living in eastern Zaire and trained them with his army. In October, when the Hutu persuaded local Zairian authorities in the Kivu provinces to expel all ethnic Tutsi from Zaire, Kagame ordered his commandos back into Zaire. The alliance of Zairian Tutsi rose to resist the edict, and Zaire's notoriously undisciplined army turned and fled. Within two weeks, the rebels had seized a swatch of eastern Zaire 600 miles long...
...Rather, his plays' successes were each determined by the tastes of the mass audience in the open-air Globe theater, much as Hollywood wagers on that audience for its movies' successes. And just as politicians today decry the lack of family values in the movies of Hollywood, a Parliamentary edict of 1642 (under the Puritans) considered "stage plays" to be "spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levities," and so banned performance of plays for close to 20 years. In his time, Shakespeare was popular culture...