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Shapiro has hinted that he might try to frustrate the introduction of DNA test results. Expect it. Last week he threw himself into the path of virtually anything that might go before a jury, even demanding to see the resume of one witness, Michele Kestler, assistant director of the police crime lab, after he challenged her authority to say the prosecution required at least 100 of Simpson's hairs to match them against hairs in a wool ski hat found at the ^ murder scene. The defense offered one hair; the judge ruled that prosecutors could have between...
...statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will use his position as a member of the Privy Council to veto the prince's accession. Many politicians less flamboyant than he may start examining such tactical possibilities...
Some would say he was also a very good predator. Stories of Diller's temper and hauteur still raise hackles around many a Hollywood campfire. It's said that Diller, furious at Fox programmer Stephen Chao, threw a videotape past Chao, making a dent in the wall; Chao framed the dent. Thus does Diller, whose stare can go through you like a power drill, inspire passions and animosities. Says a studio executive: "People who have worked for Barry and then escaped have a secret handshake. They consider themselves lucky survivors, like the Schindler Jews...
...tone at the White House. Whether that is really what the Clinton presidency needs is questionable. Nevertheless, the change in tone was evident even last week. The President, who had previously talked sweet bipartisan reason and adaptability on health care, lambasted Dole's proposal as "politics as usual" that threw crumbs to the poor, gave insurance companies everything they wanted and did nothing for the middle class. That might seem surprising, since in last year's fight to develop a budget program, Panetta successfully insisted on much more deficit reduction than Clinton's more partisan counselors wanted. According...
...treat the protesters' scare-tactics as serious crimes. The majority opinion in the contentious 6-3 vote said a Florida judge did not violate anti-abortion protesters' free-speech rights when he created a 36-foot protective zone around a Melbourne, Fla., clinic. The ruling, however, threw out a ban on picketing within 100 yards of the building. "This was one time where the pro-choice and pro-life people could agree on something," says TIME legal correspondent Andrea Sachs. "Which is that the pro-choice people won." BTW: The stinging rebuke of anti-abortion forces must seem like...