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Apparently, O.J. SIMPSON retains no grudges against the Los Angeles Police Department. Though the former football player and his lawyers excoriated the force during Simpson's 1995 murder trial, it was to the L.A.P.D. that Simpson turned last week after being robbed. Simpson says he was changing shoes in his car following a round of golf when he was approached by an armed man. "This guy looked like a regular solid citizen," he told the Associated Press. "In his 40s, very clean shaven. I might have taken him for an off-duty policeman." Simpson says...
...have never been prouder of Bill Clinton and the U.S. military than now, for standing up to Balkan bully Slobodan Milosevic in order to stop the systematic murder of ethnic Albanians [KOSOVO CRISIS, April 5]. After Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews, the West said it would never let such a tragedy occur again. Well now is the time to back up that promise, because it is happening again. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...
...night of April 23-24, 1915, 300 Armenian political, religious and intellectual leaders in Constantinople were rounded up, deported to Anatolia and put to death by order of Young Turk officials. These murders were not Turkey's first crimes against its largest minority population; in 1895, for example, every district of Turkish Armenia was subject to systematic pogroms that resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, demands to renounce their faith and looting and burning of their villages and businesses. The 1915 event served as a catalyst for what statesmen and humanitarians have referred...
When my family and I went to see Tommy five years ago, we--mother, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents-all entered the theater mad as hell at each other, for various reasons. We watched a musical about a child who witnesses a murder, is driven to blindness and muteness by his parents' hysteria, is molested by his uncle, becomes a pinball god, turns into a rock star and finally becomes a normal and forgiving person. The costumes and lights whirled before us with delirious madness. The volume was through the roof. And at the end of the show...
Even the buddy system doesn't cut it down these Cantabrigian autobahns. Cobblestones are murder for heels, messenger bag straps are easy prey to bike handlebars and that conversation you were having with the cute guy in section totally breaks up as soon as you get past the Harvard Book Store...