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Some legacies of the biggest case ever to unfurl continuously under the public eye are already evident. DNA sleuthing, exotic beyond belief a short while ago and still quite expensive, is becoming more common--as are more skeptical defense questions about lab procedures. "There is less need to proffer this...
The spectacular allegations put Iguchi in the company of a rogues' gallery of high rollers accused of vast secret transactions that have rocked their firms in the 1990s, spurring some companies to tighten oversight of trading desks. Iguchi's closest kin in scandal is Nicholas Leeson, the Singapore-based derivatives...
Once, though, just once, Crichton hung his personal life out nakedly--in an autobiographical book called Travels, published in 1988. In it he talks of his five-year attack of writer's block in the late '70s and early '80s. He wrote: "My subjective feeling every day was, it's...
And it's so easy for Americans to project their own problems onto some distant Other, in this case the perennially "exotic" Orient. The press gushed over Hillary Clinton's "courage" in denouncing Chinese violations of women's rights. But what risk was she facing, other than, perhaps, a curtailment...
Though he often treated his body as a laboratory for exotic pharmacological experiments, Garcia was admired--with sensible reservations--by the nation's most famous noninhaler, Bill Clinton. In an MTV interview last week the President called him "a great talent." Referring to Garcia's heroin addiction, Clinton added, "He...