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...just Simpson's fame that has made his one of the most relentlessly reported cases ever. Hoping to overcome O.J.'s advantage in public sympathy -- unusual for an accused killer -- city officials and police have played to the media every step of the way. The flood of sometimes inaccurate leaks from police about bloody gloves and a ski mask was followed by a heavy round of appearances on public affairs shows by Garcetti. It's true that he objected to the decision of the Los Angeles city attorney to satisfy a media request for release of the taped call...
Society now is all too ready to blame the victim, while simultaneously making a victim of the perpetrator. Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, says "The celebrity is constantly being told how great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only...
Simpson, a Heisman Trophy winner and Hall of Fame running back, has been charged in the June 12 Killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman...
Harvard Yard is undoubtedly one of the most well-known collegiate spots in the country. But one of the reasons for its fame is one of the headaches involved with its maintenance--age. Buildings range in years from 20 to 270. And, when the late 1980s arrived, the dorms had not been renovated for about 30 years...
...most powerful executives in publishing. Aggressive and abrasive, he had run Simon & Schuster since 1975 and increased the firm's revenues from $40 million to $2 billion. He achieved this growth largely by buying educational publishers like Prentice Hall. But those outfits didn't bring Simon & Schuster fame. It was its trade division -- the division that publishes the nonfiction books and novels available in bookstores -- that made waves...