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...nothing to practice what it preached. A helicopter crashed into a University boathouse. A freak virus sent hundreds of freshman to UHS. Harvard Medical School Professor John Mack claimed that aliens from outer space were kidnapping and sexually abusing humans. Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz joined the O.J. Simpson circus as part of the defense team...
Neil Rudenstine falls ill and makes the cover of Newsweek. Alan Dershowitz helps defend O.J. Simpson. Professor Hack gains notoriety by legitimizing the notion of outer space sex offenders. The omnivorous appetite of the mass media and its allure have fed on and been fed by the Harvard community. Where once we were a breeding ground and intellectual wellspring for leaders today we are becoming an adept player and purveyor in the mass media game...
Jurors in theO.J. Simpson trialsat through day 100 of courtroom testimony. As theprosecutionwinds up its case, TIME's Elaine Lafferty assesses the trial so far: "There have been surprises, most recently the prosecution's decision to cut short testimony by several weeks. Now we'll see whether the defense thinks the glove that didn't fit was enough to convince the jury that O.J. is innocent. If so, they will try to keep their presentation short."The defensemay want to hurry for another reason as well. If jurors continue being dismissed at the rate of one every 10 days...
...nation's most powerful lobbying groups came under unwelcome government scrutiny. The National Rifle Association said the IRS had begun an aggressive audit of its finances. And Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson launched a series of hearings on the political and commercial practices of the American Association of Retired Persons, accusing the seniors group of straying from "any reasonable description of a nonprofit organization...
...Simpson murder trial turned briefly, but memorably, into a Cinderella-like spectacle as prosecutors sought a fit for the case's famous bloodied gloves. "They're too small," said Simpson as he struggled, at prosecutor Christopher Darden's behest, to pull the allegedly incriminating gloves over his hands-a turn of events that was widely perceived as a blunder for the prosecution. Darden quickly suggested Simpson was faking his difficulty, then solicited expert testimony that the blood-soaked leather gloves had shrunk...