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Black's lawyers seem partial to an approach that worked flawlessly for Johnnie Cochran in the O.J. Simpson trial. They've suggested that they will create doubt by roughing up the prosecution's star witness, Black's former partner David Radler, on the stand, thereby persuading jurors to acquit because the proverbial glove doesn...
Even before the rule, being an asshole could get you fired. It happened to Terrell Owens. And to Bobby Knight. Donald Rumsfeld got us mired in Iraq, but all the talk after his booting was about his sneering intransigence. Rupert Murdoch canned Judith Regan after her much booed O.J. Simpson memoir, but the publishing exec's rude behavior apparently sealed the deal. Sutton tells of law firms and Wall Street shops now purging their louts. As more corporations adopt codes of conduct that outlaw boorishness, we may see managers stapling the broken contract to the pink slip...
Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson opened his Arthurian literature lecture last month by reading aloud an e-mail he had received from a senior in his course. The e-mail contained an epic appeal. In an analogy to one of the stories the class had just read, the senior requested accommodation for one or more of the major course assignments because of how they coincided with the deadline of her thesis. The assigned story, “Yvain, the Knight of the Lion,” tells of a knight who must vanquish a giant in time...
Dershowitz, who has defended high-profile figures such as O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bülow, took the stand to attack high-cholesterol latkes...
...boasts show-creator Ricky Blitt, a veteran writer on “Family Guy” and good friend of MacFarlane. Set in 1994, the show is an extended flashback narrated by Glen 13 years later. The pilot begins with Glen and his parents watching police cars chase O.J. Simpson on the news. But if it seems a little soon to be doing a nostalgic retrospective on 1994, MacFarlane says that’s exactly the point. “[It’s] a tongue-in-cheek thing,” he explains. “The O.J. Simpson...