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Though comparisons are being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
...dwelled on the seamier aspects of Roppongi and speculated that Lucie had been caught up in drugs or an S&M cult. By the time her body was discovered, her face was known to virtually everyone in Japan. Her disappearance had been as obsessively covered locally as the O.J. Simpson trial had been in America, exploring as it did similarly complex racial issues, only this time through a Japanese mirror. The blondness of the victim, the assumed Japaneseness of the murderer, so many issues could be read into this case: How does Japan deal with foreigners? How does this society...
...Marconi Public company based in London, England CEO: Lord Simpson What it does: Makes hardware and software for communications and information delivery. High-speed optical electronics is a priority as a result of the recent reorganization of the company's components division Why it is hot: The company is among those pioneering components for 40 gigabits per second optical networks www.marconi.com...
...BROWSING" Homer Simpson may not have mastered those pesky dials and levers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but he's got your PC figured out. The animatronic Homer from Playmates Toys ($50) responds to whatever you're doing with the appropriate bons mots: "D'oh!" for spelling errors, "Whoo-hoo!" for new e-mail. He plugs into the USB port, and you can quiet him down if necessary--handy when Mr. Burns is lurking down the hall...
...Simpsons and Philosophy is actually the second title in the publisher’s Popular Culture and Philosophy series. (Volume 1 was called Seinfeld and Philosophy; Volume 3, forthcoming, is entitled The Matrix and Philosophy.) The book is a shameless attempt to pander to all the intellectuals and psuedo-intellectuals who recognize and celebrate the sophisticated and slapstick comedy of “The Simpsons,” but it is more of a general(ly mediocre) survey of various philosophical concepts that can be projected onto the show. We get essays by random associate and assistant professors of philosophy...