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...stopped using the phone for a few minutes: according to AT&T, phone traffic dropped 60% from 10 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. P.T. In appliance stores and offices and diners, we dropped everything and watched as nine blacks, two whites and one Hispanic rendered their verdict: Orenthal James Simpson was not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the streets of African-American neighborhoods and the campuses of black colleges, we high-fived total strangers in jubilation. In white communities, we sat in quiet shock or vocal disgust...
...special report, conceived and overseen by Steve Koepp, was edited by Janice Simpson and Howard Chua-Eoan. Christine Dunleavy designed the pages, Robert Stevens tracked down the photos and Barbara Maddux led the reporting and research. The series is a remarkable reminder of how a single incident, whether it grabs headlines immediately or is barely noticed at the time, can shape history for decades to come. In a time of war and uncertainty, every new day has the potential to be one of those pivotal moments...
What love does is bring lovers to their knees, especially the ones additionally weighed down by a world where some black teens are on a local crime spree and the trial of O.J. Simpson is on every TV. What Daniel and Iris now stand to lose are the lives they have constructed to protect themselves from that world. Daniel and Kate have "a levelheaded alliance." She thinks of them as "Swiss bankers of the heart." But after three years in placid Leyden, she has a full inventory of wifely complaints. ("His smile can grate on her as if it were...
...multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous science fiction was a tragic figure with a chaotic personal life and a pan-galactic case of writer's block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said...
...There is a fantastic creative chemistry between music and visual and it can be used to tell a story,” executive producer Sherry Simpson writes in the film’s notes...