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...appetite for this trial so rabid? It's not as if this case will set any particularly interesting legal precedent, and no one involved is famous, so comparisons to the O.J. Simpson murder trial fall a bit flat. Are we fascinated by Junta because we enjoy trials in general, because of the voyeuristic thrill we get from watching another person's fate hang in the balance? Certainly the breakthrough success of Court TV - and the coverage granted to other legal proceedings - indicates there is an audience for even the least exciting trials...
...WALLIS SIMPSON...
...Simpson was the first woman named Person of the Year (she would be followed by, among others, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined...
...Kelly: Well, many women have been Person of the Year. Wallace Warfield-Simpson, who married the King of England; Queen Elizabeth has been Woman of the Year; Madame Chaing Kai-Shek and Cori Aquino...
...literary history of the word, which originates from the Latin word for black, niger. Kennedy traces the word from its usage in American literature, popular music and hip-hop culture to the legal profession’s treatment of the word during prominent cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial...