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...Cadillacs. DIED. MARY WHITEHOUSE, 91, schoolteacher turned feisty antipornography lobbyist; in Colchester, England. Whitehouse created the Clean Up TV campaign in 1964?prompted by a bbc program depicting extramarital affairs?and the National Viewers and Listeners Association in 1965. DISBARRED. F. LEE BAILEY, 68, former defense attorney for O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst, from the Florida bar; in Tallahassee. Bailey, cited by the State Supreme Court for mishandling nearly $6 million in securities owned by a drug-smuggling client, remains a member of the Massachusetts bar. SENTENCED. JONATHAN KING, 56, British pop star first known for Everyone's Gone...
Presidents that attended Harvard: John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josiah Jed Bartlett, Bill Pullman. Presidents that attended Yale: Warren G. Harding, Warren G, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, O.J. Simpson, Emperor Hirohito, Henry VIII, Manuel Noreaga, Rasputin, Bill Maher...
...best when it dives headfirst into what’s happening, and thus far the show has mostly shied away from current events. Presidential elections, the Gulf War, the O.J. Simpson trial and Lewinsky have provided many of the show’s greatest recent moments. This year, some of the strongest bits have focused on the terror war, but these have been few and far between. Will Ferrell’s President George W. Bush made his return in the second episode’s cold opening, promising Osama bin Ladin, “I’m gonna...
Call it the reverse-O.J. effect. After Simpson's criminal trial, the Los Angeles police department's bungling of DNA evidence left jurors around the country skeptical of prosecutors. Add well-publicized problems with the FBI's labs and police-brutality scandals in New York City and Los Angeles, and "the law-enforcement community was tainted," says DeKalb County, Ga., district attorney J. Tom Morgan. But since Sept. 11, jurors have made a U turn. "There was a time when I'd ask people, 'If the government made it, it must be blank?' And in the past that blank...
...Francis attracted the birds, others attract high-profile felony trials. Last week a Florida courtroom bore witness to a scene photocopied from the one that riveted a nation in 1995: O.J. SIMPSON mouthing the words thank you to a jury that had just rendered a not-guilty verdict. The charges this time were battery and auto burglary. Simpson's neighbor Jeffrey Pattinson alleged that the former NFL star ran a stop sign, nearly causing an accident, went verbally ballistic on him when Pattinson honked his horn and finally yanked his glasses off. Simpson said Pattinson drove up behind...