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...Drawing upon his experience as a professional pitchman (Hertz) and murder defendant (Trial of the Century), O.J. SIMPSON has taped a series of ads for Justice Media, a lawyer-referral service. Simpson says the offer to appear in the television commercials interested him because the ads are aimed at minorities, who often don't have enough money or connections to get first-class attorneys. "The main thing I have learned is you can't walk into a courtroom without competent legal representation," Simpson told the Associated Press. The ads have yet to appear, but Justice Media plans to sell them...
...near future indeed, specifically the waning weeks of 1999. Millennial fever has reached even the idyllic and remote Smoky Mountain town of High Balsam, N.C. (winter pop. 1,000), where Margaret Bonner, 33, serves as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. "Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us," Margaret says at the outset of her tale, "the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things we neither anticipated nor, in some cases, could even imagine. This is the story...
Hillary Clinton would make a superb Senator [NATION, March 1] should the electorate of Arkansas choose to bestow the honor upon her. Representing New York, however, would be contortionism in true Clintonesque style. She has not shoveled New York snow or paid New York taxes. She has not earned the right to represent the people of New York. STEPHEN P. SCHAEFER Rochester...
...that enabled Orville and Wilbur to carry the human race skyward. Their example reminds us that genius doesn't have a pedigree, and that you don't discover new worlds by plying safe, conventional waters. With 10 years of hindsight, even Orville Wright admitted that "I look with amazement upon our audacity in attempting flights with a new and untried machine...
Though others had been warning of pesticide dangers, it was Carson who struck upon the metaphor that would draw all these dire warnings to a point. "There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings...Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change...There was a strange stillness...The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird...