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...remarks last week sent another shudder through a nation already coping--or more precisely, failing to cope--with the renewed divisions triggered by the Simpson verdict. And they added to the dilemma of black leaders who for weeks have been wrestling with the decision of whether to march. Representatives Gary Franks of Connecticut and Charles Rangel of New York, along with the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P., announced that they could not join Farrakhan no matter how laudable the event's goals, while some women's organizations raised objections to Farrakhan's exclusion of females. Said former Black Panther Angela Davis...
...home. A crime scene soaked in blood. Wealthy, attractive, clean-cut defendants with a seemingly clear motive for the murders. A riveting, controversial and protracted televised trial. And a jury decision that stunned many Americans, who had thought that the only possible outcome of the trial was a guilty verdict. But at least in the case of young Lyle and Erik Menendez, accused of shooting their parents in August 1989, the prosecutors get the chance to try it all over again...
WHERE'S CLINTON? WHERE'S DOLE? WHERE'S POWELL? THE REST OF the country is talking about nothing else, yet those who would lead us are talking about anything but. As the O.J. verdict exposes America's great racial divide, public figures capable of talking forever have become minimalists. Their comments are worse than unsatisfying. They insult our intelligence and fuel our disgust with the system. "Respect" the jury's decision and pray for the victims' families, says Clinton. Avoid "a huge national debate and move on," says Powell. "We need a healing period to find ways to understand each...
...code events, like having Ron Goldman's father speak for the victims of violence at the G.O.P. convention." But the Dole adviser, who worked for George Bush in 1992, remembers how wrong they were back then. "We thought Rodney King would re-elect Bush," he says. "The King verdict revolted everyone, but we figured whites would worry most about becoming victims as they drove through the areas they'd escaped for the suburbs." Bush, thought the Bushies, was more likely than Clinton to be seen as capable of stopping such outcomes. "We're skittish about O.J. because we misread King...
...standstill on Tuesday as Americans from the President on down--57% of the country, according to one poll--tuned in to hear the jury's decision in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. Coming with unexpected swiftness, after less than four hours of deliberation, the not-guilty verdict by the mostly black jury caused a whiplash of reaction--from stunned disbelief to ecstatic cheers of joy. The immediate postmortems polarized along racial lines even as the first jurors to speak to the press said they had based their decision strictly on the prosecution's failure to present convincing evidence...