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...career move, predicted that Simpson would, if cleared, be back on the celebrity circuit in no time. Yet Simpson has entered uncharted waters. Other stars, from Fatty Arbuckle to Michael Jackson, have been tainted by criminal charges or allegations, but none has weathered a murder trial whose every evidentiary twist and turn was witnessed by the entire nation. The same values-free commercialism that enabled Simpson to become a best-selling author while still in jail is now turning against him. The controversy surrounding him has made Simpson too much of a risk for those who depend on the goodwill...
...find a quick, short-term solution to the problems, not a long-term, comprehensive one that would be much more difficult and costly. They could have continued to struggle to keep the grates open, knowing that the problem would soon be out of their hands. Instead, by some perverse twist of logic, the renovations have become a rationale for abandoning the fight prematurely. Two or three years may not seem like a big deal to the folks who decided to erect the cage, but for the homeless, just one winter may seem like an eternity...
...ruling barring Business Week from publishing an article on a pending lawsuit filed by Procter & Gamble against Bankers Trust. The ruling is a classic example of unconstitutional prior restraint, according to the magazine. The censored article was based on documents under court seal in the lawsuit. In an ironic twist, however, Judge John Feikens unsealed the documents in his new decision--thus enabling the magazine to belatedly print its story, though it lost the legal argument...
...Knicks-Rockets 1994 NBA championship series with a white-bronco chase along a near-deserted freeway in California. Few could have guessed then that the saga would continue for 16 months of jury selection, DNA evidence, bloody gloves, mystery envelopes, Fuhrman tapes and, in maybe the most ironic twist of the entire circus, a verdict in four hours...
...that end, Miller has tried to develop her own trademark features. She hopes to interview "offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...