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...some analyses, it could rope in literallythousands of people on campus who are required topass along information," he said. "That is toobroad a reporting regime," he said...
Somebody give O.J. SIMPSON some more rope, please. During a daylong interview in Los Angeles with Ruby Wax, Britain's most irrepressible American, Simpson went on about his wet dreams in prison and how "the availability of women now is more than ever in my life, which I find strange." (He's not alone there.) Out walking with Wax, Simpson was accosted by Angelenos to sign autographs and shake hands, while some told him they thought he was a killer. When asked if that hurt him, Simpson said no. As if all that weren't charming enough...
Moore, skilled at paying out rope to his victims (and then charging them for it), later agreed to meet with Nike spokesman Lee Weinstein to discuss damage control. Nike had two problems with the interview, Weinstein explained. First, it was unfair to include Knight's endorsement of a 14-year-old labor force while leaving out his subsequent pledge to make a transition to 16-year-olds (a difficult task, says Nike, given the workers' propensity for using "forged documents"). Second, Knight referred to his employees as "poor little Indonesian workers," a characterization that failed to convey the respect...
...over so that I was no longer looking straight down. Before I realized it, I was slowly yo-yoing up and down 75 feet above the roof, swinging back and forth under the platform. They yelled a few cheers, waited for me to stop bouncing and lowered the retrieval rope...
...them concluded. The slightly paunchy boy also fancied himself a Romeo and, with an intuitive sense of drama, vowed suicide when a Minnesota Juliet wanted nothing to do with him. "He was crying a lot," recalls his buddy Andrew O'Rourke, 13. "He showed me the gun and the rope he could use. I said there are other girls as good as her, but he said, 'No. She's one of a kind.'" After 45 minutes, though, O'Rourke convinced his friend to lay down...