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Prominent attorney and former Simpson counsel F. Lee Bailey was imprisoned last week after being held in contempt of court for his failure to turn over $24 million in stock to the federal government. The stock was rendered as payment to Bailey by a former client...
...have quite the divisiveness of the Dreyfus Affair or the O.J. Simpson trial verdict, but the Waleses' divorce has created a passionate split in opinions...
...candidacy occurs in the context of what might be called the Great Nineties Conflation, wherein too many elements of American life (politics, moralism, journalism, sports, crime and the justice system, to name some) have merged with one another to form a sort of metaphysical entertainment conglomerate. The O.J. Simpson trial will be remembered as a classic of the conflation. Rush Limbaugh, whom some credit with the Republicans' 1994 electoral deluge, is a prototype; his material is relentlessly political-cultural, and he describes himself as an entertainer. For years after Buchanan left government, he made his living as an entertainer-provocateur...
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA: Unless a last minute appeal is successful, O.J. Simpson lawyer F. Lee Bailey has until Friday to come up with $21 million or be jailed on contempt of court charges. U.S. District Judge Maurice Paul had given Bailey until February 29 to turn over the $3 million in cash and $18 million dollars worth of stock that Bailey says he received in lieu of fees and expenses from a former client, drug trafficker Claude Duboc. The government claims it has the right to the money because Duboc had agreed to forfeit his assets after pleading guilty on charges...
SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON HAS PROPOSED legislation that would sharply reduce the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. [BUSINESS, Feb. 5]. If computer-company executives hate the Simpson bill out of a genuine fear of a technical-talent shortage, the solution is obvious: raise the salaries of computer professionals. In my 30 years as a physicist working in industrial R. and D., I have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high...