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...opening of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the former football star's high-powered legal defense suffered one of its most damaging defeats. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution could present in evidence the bulk of the materials it has gathered that might show Simpson was a violently jealous and abusive husband. The judge handed the defense one small win, though, allowing it to introduce some evidence regarding the alleged racist attitudes of a key detective. The mostly negative developments for the defense capped a week in which an embarrassing ego spat between two of its usually media-savvy...
With the O.J. Simpson jury sequestered, the double-murder case entered one of its more dramatic phases as the prosecution and defense battled over evidence that might show the ex-football star to have been a jealous and physically abusive husband. The defense challenged the material as irrelevant, unreliable, inflammatory and prejudicial...
...spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed: "The traditional bipartisanship of the NGA is breaking down," said Doug Richardson of the DGA. On the Republican side, though, a spokesman for Tommy Thompson, Republican of Wisconsin and vice chair of the NGA, says the Democrats are just plain jealous. "It's just the way that the game is right now," Kevin Keane told TIME Daily. "The Republicans are in charge...
That stature gap helps explain why both parties are playing a new Washington game called "Whose Wrecking Ball Is Bigger?" After Republican Newt Gingrich announced his plan to sell one of five House office buildings, jealous Clinton aides one-upped the Republican leader with a plan to padlock an entire federal agency. Hearing of this, Republican leaders late last Friday began work on a new budget plan to close four agencies: HUD, Energy, Education and Commerce. The bidding war exasperated one official. "Now we're in a situation," he said, "where if we don't abolish three agencies, we look...
...just as troubled au pairs are recycled, so are problem families. The McManamys provided temporary shelter to two AuPairCare hires, both in flight from the same couple. The first au pair complained of a domineering husband and a jealous wife. Her successor charged that the husband had made sexual advances and the wife had refused to speak to her. Becky, who helped the first go home and the second find a better job, says the agency failed to assist in either case. More common, an agency will attribute the problem to "incompatibility," and try to rematch both sides...