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After spending the night with Simpson, the children returned to their grandparents' home in Monarch Bay, California, where they are enrolled in school. Simpson is represented in the custody case by Bernard Leckie, an attorney in Irvine, California, who predicts that his client will take custody of the children at some point and that the case will be worked out amicably. Says Leckie: "The Browns, in talking with their attorneys, are mindful that the best interest of the children is the key matter, and they realize that O.J. loves the children and that they should have their father's influence...
...golf enthusiast that he occasionally forgets that others don't always share his passion. During last month's Bosnia crisis, Clinton tracked down French President Jacques Chirac in Morocco for an important phone consultation. "Give my highest regards to the King," Clinton told Chirac, referring to the Moroccan monarch. "Tell him I'm using those golf clubs he gave me, and I'm hittin' 'em real sweet!" The U.S. President's small talk left his French counterpart puzzled...
...thousand years ago under the caliphate of Baghdad: back-corridors palace intrigue; the mysterious wounding at a festival; a headlong flight across the desert by the ruler's beloved daughters and his sons-in-law, one of them the land's chief armorer; their reception by a friendly monarch who shelters them in a palace. Finally, the betrayed ruler's son, who has wormed his way to grand vizier, leads a pursuit attempting to retrieve the fugitives. In a fury he denounces them before the neighboring king, who rebuffs the mission coldly...
...great royal necropolis, or city of the dead, in the Valley of the Kings. His internal organs were removed and placed in vessels known as canopic jars, and the body was embalmed and gently wrapped in cloth. Archaeologists found that the embalmers had even stuffed peppercorns into the monarch's nostrils to keep his aquiline nose from being flattened by the wrappings...
...BURUMA'S article, "Lost Without a Faith,'' about how the Japanese are looking for new gods [Cover, April 3]. Buruma has keen insight into the Japanese mentality. I don't agree, however, with his opinion that Soka Gakkai members worship Daisaku Ikeda, honorary president of the group, as a monarch. The Soka Gakkai is a grass-roots Buddhist organization whose goal is the establishment of world peace. Since it stands on the side of the common people, it has always been criticized and persecuted by the authorities. Its first president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a renowned educator, died in prison during World...