Word: simpson
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...march. There is the race argument: it is more often southern blacks than whites who end up being executed. There is the wealth argument: those who have the money to assemble a "dream team" a la O.J. Simpson have a vastly superior chance of avoiding execution. There is the fallibility argument: DNA tests have recently shown that many convicted criminals were actually not responsible for the crimes for which they were imprisoned. If they were executed, that would have been that. And there is the deterrence argument: the pro side argues that the death penalty deters others from committing crime...
Perhaps we are meant to be disturbed by the lengths to which people will go to shore up their free access to pay channels. Maybe we're even supposed to think that the trial being televised throughout the movie--apparently a mix of the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers trials--is some sort of sad commentary on our society...
...never looked back. In 1988 he became only the second G.O.P. Senator from his state since Reconstruction and soon leapfrogged over far more senior Republicans onto the top rungs of the leadership ladder. After the Republican sweep of 1994, he even challenged Dole's personal choice for whip, Alan Simpson, beating him by one vote...
Still, Stone may yet have to face a Louisiana jury. Attorney Joseph Simpson, who represents clerk Patsy Byers, has named Stone and Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...
Thanks for the report on O.J. simpson's eventful visit to England [WORLD, May 27]. The article provided a welcome contrast to the drivel we have been subjected to here from our "much more objective" press, as O.J.'s public relations consultant Max Clifford called it. Indeed, the great British press has done it again. Despite all the crazy exclusives our papers have come up with during the whole saga, they all had one thing in common: the belief that O.J.'s trial was unfair in various ways. But now it amazes me to see that the media...