Word: simpson
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...society that publicly criticizes racism, even as it is privately practiced, interracial relationships still stir up controversy—one doesn’t need to look further than the O.J. Simpson trial to see the social anxieties that commonly surround interracial...
Unfortunately, the final match pitted a Harvard freshman—Mike Baria—against No. 15 Phillip Simpson, who won in a major decision...
...solid reason to bar cameras from all jury deliberations [Society, Dec. 9] is the penchant of some media voices to treat the news as theater. Remember the stir over the hairdos of prosecutor Marcia Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial? Style and entertainment value can too readily top substance in some news coverage, particularly on television, and public understanding suffers as a result. If the camera caught a juror in a slumping posture, would there then be media "analysis" on clearheadedness? If cameras routinely appeared in the jury room, would sober, sensitive and sensible individuals come to regard jury duty...
...White House, Cheney has made a career out of being the consummate No. 2, the trusted deputy or operations man who carries out his assignments with smooth efficiency. "You plug him in, and he works anywhere," says Mary Kay Hill, a longtime aide to former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, who worked with Cheney on Capitol Hill. "He just has a real good way of fitting in and working his environment...
...self-image, it's fascinating. Fuhrman--as interpreted by Fuhrman--is a driven detective, frustrated by the Greenwich cops (he says they're "brain dead," lazy and afraid to offend their rich patrons) and an unforgiving world. We know that he is "the convicted perjurer who helped set O.J. Simpson free"--because the clumsy script has someone say it 15 seconds after he appears--but we get few details about his disgrace until late in the movie. By then, Murder has cast him as a persecuted working stiff. "Say 'nigger,' Detective Fuhrman!" a rich kid taunts him, as if teasing...