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...reached "that toddling town," as Frank Sinatra has it, about two steps behind a heat wave that had Chicagoans speculating whether a human could actually melt. The weather was all the word hereabouts, the weather and O.J. Simpson, and the two local subjects, heat and homicide, utterly eclipsed the Cup, the most popular sporting event on earth. Nevertheless there was a parade, and bunting and flags were hung about, and the city cleaned itself and put out flowers and swept bums under the rug. Outside those who stood to turn a dollar (about 200 million of them were expected...
...crisis, people condense into their essential selves. O.J. Simpson was, essentially, a very great runner. That was how a bowlegged kid with rickets had escaped the slums where he was born, how a football superstar had become a national icon, always outrunning his obstacles, finding daylight where there wasn't any. "I'll tell you," he used to say, "my speed has always been my best weapon. So if I can't run away from whatever it is, I don't need to be there...
...Simpson's son Jason broke away from the cops in the doorway and ran toward...
...battery went dead. Albanese yelled from the doorway that they would get another one; it would just take a few minutes. When they finally found one Cowling passed it along, and the talking began again -- about O.J.'s kids and how much he loved them, about his wife. Finally Simpson said he wanted to come...
...have to come to us," said Albanese. Simpson said he was carrying two family pictures. Albanese alerted the snipers that those were not weapons in his hands. Slowly O.J. extended one arm from the truck. He seemed to step out and then step back in. "You've got to come to us," Albanese called out. Finally O.J. emerged, clutching the pictures. When he reached the door of the house he collapsed into the arms of the officers, looking terribly sad and tired. They took him gently into the living room, gave him some orange juice and waited while he talked...