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...WAIL by Johnnie Cochran (from his opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial) There was no hostility No stalking No jealousy No nothing...
...Simpson trial moved into what could prove to be its most explosive phase: the testimony of Detective Mark Fuhrman, the key investigator who defense attorneys have suggested is a racist and who, they say, may have planted evidence to frame Simpson. Taking the stand, Fuhrman denied engaging in a conversation about hating "niggers," as was recollected by a woman in a fax to the defense. Under questioning, Fuhrman then began a methodical account of his movements during the initial investigation-an account designed to show that he couldn't have monkeyed with evidence...
...workplace that has hardly flexed despite the fact that 68% of women with children younger than 18 work, it's an ex-husband using your career to try to take the kids away. Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...
Even in the Simpson trial, there is a double standard. No one seems concerned that Robert Shapiro, who has young children, is out many nights at the Eclipse, the Beverly Hills restaurant of the moment, and no one dwells on Johnnie Cochran's troubled record as a husband. The double standard means a working mother not only has to worry that someone else will see her child take his first step while she is reading a brief but also that if she achieves success in a man's world, her child won't be there when she gets home...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...