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...Simpson verdict last week not only overshadowed Powell's barnstorming will-he-or-won't-he book tour but also distracted national attention from the President's veto of a congressional budget proposal, the Republican plan to cut Medicare and the strenuous antics of all the other real, imagined or longed-for candidates for the presidency, most of whom are not getting all that much attention anyway. But the question on the mind of politicos was not who planted a certain glove but whether the verdict will spur a white backlash that could affect the presidential campaign--and especially...
...almost impossible to talk about it," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, "without being smeared by it." Reaction to the verdict raised the familiar visage of the Angry White Male (now joined by the Angry White Female, outraged by the jury's soft-pedaling of domestic abuse). "The verdict is going to play out in the subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form...
...must say something, be neutral or at least soothing. Only California Republican Bob Dornan, who has nothing to lose, was brazen: "I think it was a racist decision." Pat Buchanan, the candidate many say is the product of white anger, stoked that resentment: "I don't respect the verdict because I think it was wrong." Bob Dole was empathic: "It is very important at this time that we use all our energies to find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe it is important that we support our system of trial...
...minutes before 1 p.m., President Clinton left the Oval Office--which does not have a television set--to catch the verdict in his secretary's office. Somber but showing no surprise, Clinton issued an oddly flat statement about the need to respect the judicial system. Some of his aides, notably George Stephanopoulos, urged him to make a broader statement about race relations, but others preached caution. He opted instead for telling USA Today in a short interview on Thursday that it would be a "great mistake" if the verdict further divided the country...
...bodies? There was certainly not enough evidence to prove that Zoloft caused Christopher Pittman to commit murder, as antidepressants have so far been related to suicidal ideation and not violence. This absence of the link between antidepressants and violence no doubt contributed to the jury’s guilty verdict. But because of the lack of clinical trials demonstrating their effects on children, it is also not necessarily possible to conclude that the antidepressant had absolutely no effect on his developing brain. Ultimately, the jury had to make an extremely serious decision based on a drug that has not been...