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Virginia Depper was sitting in her bedroom on a quiet October evening near Tucson, Arizona, when two bullets shattered her window. As she was on the phone to 911, she began to scream in terror. She was being bludgeoned to death. What was she saying? The 911 tape is garbled, but it may have been, "No ... Dale ... don't!'' Twenty-four hours later, Depper's ex-husband, anesthesiologist Dale Bertsch, was arrested and charged with murder. Several prominent criminal lawyers he contacted quoted him fees in the $250,000 range. Instead, he used attorney Larry Hammond, who agreed to take...
...some of Jackson's greatest hits, including such classics as Rock with You and Beat It. The second CD has 15 new songs, featuring plenty of guest performers (basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has a rap cameo on the song 2Bad, and sister Janet duets with Michael on Scream) and guest producers (including R. Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis). The result is that HIStory is full of musical ideas but feels too bureaucratic and lacks a strong, sure vision...
...main message of Jackson's new CD is, to quote from the first single, Scream, "The whole system sucks." Will any of his millions of fans notice the irony? "His whole self-aggrandizing stance seems inappropriate, considering what's gone down," says a record-industry insider, whose company is part of the album's multimillion-dollar promotional crusade. "But people have short memories; if the music's there, people will probably respond...
...which may be discounted by as much as $10 in some stores -- could be an impediment to megasales. Russ Solomon, head of Tower Records, asks, "What ordinary high school kid is going to shell out 25 bucks unless they want it awfully bad?" Still, early indications are good. Scream hit No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week-the highest debut for a single ever. Says Mike Shallet of SoundScan, which tracks music sales: "Naysayers are going to be surprised. There's an immense difference between consumer reaction to Michael Jackson and the press reaction...
Republicans who talk about the real-life consequences of pop-culture vulgarity still scream at the suggestion of any link between talk-show belligerence and Oklahoma City. Americans aren't so sure. In the TIME poll, 52% of those questioned said they believed that strong antigovernment rhetoric inspires people to violence. And a lot of Americans are already suspicious of any attempt to use the culture issue as a way to evade discussion of everything else that contributes to the fraying of American life, from threadbare schools to the flood of guns. In the TIME poll, 55% of those questioned...