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Deutsche Grammophon's new release "Paganini for Two" with violinist Gil Shaham and guitarist Goran Sollscher advertises itself as "Italian Music for Violin & Guitar-Perfect Company for Relaxing at Home." Recently breaking Billboard's classical top 20 as well as Tower's classical top 10, this recording's success continues a trend in popular classical music which arguably started with the fuss over Henryk Gorecki's third symphony, and includes the more recent "international phenomenon" of Chant...
Unsettling as some of that may be, none of it can compare with the lesson prosecutors have had to accept -- that it's possible to play to the court of public opinion so strenuously that you lose the courts of law. On Friday Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded...
...misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. He was fined and placed on two years' probation after pleading no contest. So impermeable was his image, however, that the conviction did not prevent NBC Sports from signing him to a broadcast contract three months later. Last week, city district attorney Gil Garcetti called the handling of the case "a joke, a terrible joke. This whole thing is the result of the justice system not dealing with domestic violence...
...week went on and the scrutiny mounted, Simpson grew more and more despondent. The circus parked outside his house in Brentwood Park, a glossy enclave in West Los Angeles where police are always nestled anyway to protect Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, D.A. Gil Garcetti and several judges who live there. The homeowner's association hires 24-hour plainclothes security men, who watch over the homes of Angela Lansbury, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, Roseanne Arnold, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. In fact, some neighbors of Nicole's had a confession of their own. They hoped that...
...angrily in the background. Nicole was fighting tears as she told a 911 operator that Simpson had broken into the house. She was advised by the operator to stay on the line, but Nicole fell silent as Simpson continued to rage. Garbled expletives could be heard. L.A. district attorney Gil Garcetti, who criticized the release of the tapes, says he will meet no more media requests for information. He claims the official blackout will help ensure a fair trial...