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...turning point in the trial. Jurors were also seen nodding in seeming agreement when Baker contended that 6 billion-to-1 DNA odds still represented reasonable doubt. And certainly the plaintiffs' case suffered a blow when Kato Kaelin admitted he had initially testified for the prosecution in the vain hope that with O.J. behind bars, he'd be allowed to move into the main house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRAMING OF O.J. SIMPSON | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance of 10 Hail Marys down to two: "Hey, that's all I can do." EZ Streets is filled with people who make cheap and slippery compromises. So far, the show's creators have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SHED A TEAR, JOE FRIDAY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...truthfulness that involve not only Kardashian, but some of Simpson's other lawyers, as well as Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Run of His Life, currently a best-selling Simpson book, and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Simpson's lead attorney, who has a new book out too. His is a vain autobiography called Journey to Justice. Toobin and Cochran are both attacking Schiller, and, for good measure, each other. Opening arguments for Simpson's next trial, the civil one, are set to begin this week, but make no mistake, the first show is still running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY WANT TO TELL US: BATTLE OF THE O.J. BOOKS | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage for the duration of the play, gurgling and babbling unconvincingly. Those who saw her in last year's West Side Story might have yearned for a chorus of America, but in vain; at least one can say that she pitches a nice epileptic...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Dead Babies, Geraldo and New Orleans | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...mere half of an island that became a short-lived nation, born in fratricidal guerrilla war and eventually swallowed by its giant neighbor Indonesia. For 21 years, despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPLIT PEACE PRIZE PAIR | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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