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...locked doors of the D.A.'s office. The Goldman family huddled in the prosecutors' sanctum sanctorum, a drab room occupied mostly by cubicles and shelves lined with material from the trial--hundreds of videotapes and black three-ring binders bearing such labels as DIVORCE RECORDS and FOOTPRINTS. Fred Goldman, Ron's father, chewed on a bagel as his daughter Kim explained that she felt O.K., actually hopeful, even amid the tension. She might even be ready, she confided, to marry her longtime boyfriend Ricardo...
...fight on both fronts. Simpson faces three civil suits--the first by Fred Goldman and his children; a second by Ronald Goldman's estranged mother Sharon Rufo, who is divorced from Fred; and a third by Nicole's father Louis Brown. The "wrongful death" actions carry no jail time, but they could cost millions of dollars to fight and tens of millions in damages if O.J. loses. Says Ron's sister Kimberly: "We have only one goal, and that is that he be held responsible for what he did." Simpson will be deposed on Oct. 16 in the Goldman suit...
Instead, the community rebelled. Five school-board members who supported the plan were later recalled. Last year the partnership effort was dropped. No one felt the fallout more than ousted board member Fred Prehn, who had championed the plan. "I received phone messages telling me that I would get a bullet in my head and that my child would never reach the first grade," said Prehn, a dentist. He says eight white families stormed into his office, denounced him as a "Hmong lover" and took their business elsewhere. Under threat of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union...
Jamie Houghton's father, Amory Houghton '21, was active in alumni affairs and was the Divinity School's primary benefactor for many years, according to Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50. Amory Houghton also endowed the Chemistry Department chair now occupied by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...aristocrat, F.D.R. had polio and needed a wheelchair for most of his adult life. Yet, far from becoming a self-pitying wretch, he developed an unbridled optimism that served him and the country well during the Depression and World War II--this despite, or because of, what Princeton professor Fred Greenstein calls Roosevelt's "tendency toward deviousness and duplicity...