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...sense that the hearing was the main event rather than just a prologue had mounted inexorably over its entire length, but crested during its peculiar second week. The prosecution had opened with the testimony of limousine driver Allan Park and Simpson houseguest Brian ("Kato") Kaelin. Park, whose ferrying of Simpson to the Los Angeles airport at around 11:15 on the night of the murder had been part of Simpson's alibi, reported that O.J. did not answer his intercom until around 10:56. Shortly before that, Park added, he had glimpsed a 6-ft. 200-lb. African-American figure...
Witnesses in the O.J. Simpson hearing began piecing together a mosaic of the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered. Much of the drama today came from details provided by a Simpson houseguest, who failed to corroborate O.J.'s assertion that he was at home when the victims were attacked. He did describe a bizarre pounding he heard that shook his room like an "earthquake." The limousine driver who tookSimpson to the airport related how he waited more than 10 minutes for his passenger, during which time he saw an African American male "walking pretty fast" go into...
...Forbes himself long owned a Boeing 727 (which he dubbed the Capitalist Tool). Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett is famous for not buying a plane until, in 1986, he finally gave in to expediency and bought an 18-year- old Falcon 20 (which he dubbed the Indefensible). My well-shaved houseguest, meanwhile, awaits delivery of a new $25 million Gulfstream IV. It's just nice to be able to pick up and go when you want...
...affair that threatens to turn serious, not to say somber. He drives her about neighboring reservations and takes her to some ancient Pueblo villages. She begins to see a difference between inhabiting the land and trying to conquer it: "To people who think of themselves as God's houseguest, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today...
...mores, proposes that the period between 1880 and 1910 could be called the Vanderbilt Era, after its largest and wealthiest clan. In these portraits in miniature of family members -- plus outriders like Richard Morris Hunt, who designed their grandiose homes -- Auchincloss writes with the relaxed intimacy of a frequent houseguest. (In fact, his wife Adele is a Vanderbilt descendant...