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LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 8: O. J. Simpson sits in Superior Court in Los Angeles 08 December 1994 during an open court session where Judge Lance Ito denied a media attorney's request to open court transcripts from a 07 December private meeting involving prospective jurors. Final selection of alternate jurors by attorneys in the double murder case is expected later this afternoon. (Photo credit should read POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

America and the Simpson Trial America and the Simpson Trial

This article originally appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

The Strange Case of Baby M The Strange Case of Baby M

I think I understand Judge Harvey Sorkow's ruling in the Baby M case.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Katha Pollitt

Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise

The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

GATT & the Shape of Our Dreams GATT & the Shape of Our Dreams

Maastricht, NAFTA, GATT....

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War

Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Why I’m Not Running for President Why I’m Not Running for President

I'll admit that my realistic chances of becoming President are right down there with Quayle's I.Q.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Gloria Steinem

Where’s the Revolution? Where’s the Revolution?

When I came out in Boston in the mid-1970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Barbara Smith

Silent Reproach Silent Reproach

Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator

Early on the morning of June 8, a messenger arrived at an apartment in one of the poshest districts of Paris bearing documents to be signed by a former high-level government offi...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Western Front Western Front

Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb. The results of Algeria's June 12 local elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (F.J.S.) won more ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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