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...ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should therefore show compassion by ordering no jail time. "The first step toward rehabilitating a broken, humbled, defeated man is compassion," he said. "There isn't anybody left who doesn't know that Delmar Simpson...
...criminal- defense team is expected to do its best to create reasonable doubt about its client's alleged guilt, what makes the Simpson squad stand out is the lengths to which it tries to use the media to mount its counteroffensive. Lead attorney Robert Shapiro may be the master spinner, but he counts on a formidable team of private investigators to dig up information that will help his case. Heading this team is a seasoned duo of private eyes. Ex-New York City cop John McNally, 60, is the tough guy, with a reputation for playing hard, dirty...
Ironically, Theroux's nonfiction, notably The Great Railway Bazaar, has excited the public's imagination more than his fiction. Few know he wrote The Mosquito Coast, remembered more for the film version than for the original novel. Too bad, because Theroux is a gifted and versatile tale spinner. He usually writes about outsiders: artists, adventurers and dreamers on the run from conformity. This partly explains the years Theroux lived abroad. Now an ex-expatriate, he is apparently still edgy enough about the U.S. to live near the exits, in Massachusetts and Hawaii. Millroy the Magician (Random House; 437 pages...
...today. When Poulios was a child, his neighbors were predominantly Irish and French Canadian. Now a Cambodian family lives on one side of his turquoise-shingled house, a Lebanese family on the other. His father, who spoke only a few words of English, worked for three decades as a spinner in the Merrimack textile mill. Poulios, a city mailman for 34 years, has served six years on the city council. Today he is Lowell's mayor. "The Acre is the bottom of the social ladder," he says. "The last group that comes in is always on the bottom rung...
...undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord for more than four decades before finally regaining his homestead, and that man's son, who deals his birthright away to a slick-talking tale spinner for the Rockefeller energy interests...