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Harvard joined the nation in watching not one, but two events on "Must-See" television Tuesday, as several networks chose to run a split screen of President Clinton's State of the Union Address and the announcement of the verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial...
Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, an expert on issues of trial evidence, credited the criminal verdict to poor prosecution, not to the jury...
Nesson said that although the verdict was widely publicized on Tuesday, he was disappointed that the trial was not televised...
SANTA MONICA: Now that the Simpson jury has delivered its verdict, the endless courtroom miniseries moves to appeals of both the civil case and his child-custody decision. Up next: How much should he pay? Jurors will reconvene on Thursday for a punitive damages hearing where plaintiff witnesses will testify how much Simpson is worth and, subject to the judge's approval, how much he could be worth in the future. Trying to keep earning potential out of the equation, Simpson lawyers Wednesday fought to prevent testimony estimating the long-term market value (if any) of Simpson's name...
...closed on some strong rhetorical notes, even if the speech in between was pretty standard," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "But tonight he was speaking faster than I've ever heard, perhaps because he wanted to say as much as he could before the networks broke away for the verdict." During the President's speech, he made the case that, with a strong economy and the nation at peace, our biggest enemy is inaction. "So tonight, I issue a call to action -- action by this Congress, by our states, by all our people, to prepare America for the 21st century...