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That is the question the Supreme Court will consider in a trial set to begin this Tuesday. Simon & Schuster, one of the country's largest publishing firms, brought the case on the behalf of Henry Hill, whose career in organized crime was chronicled in the novel Wiseguy and the hit movie GoodFellas...
...Simon & Schuster is challenging a New York law requiring that all royalties due a criminal for his story be put in an escrow fund for his victims. The law--known as the "Son of Sam" law in reference to the alias used by serial killer David Berkowitz--is the oldest such statute in the nation. More than 40 states have similar laws, and all are in jeopardy of being ruled unconstitutional by the Court in the Hill case...
Last week both the Democrats and the Israeli lobby fell silent, tacitly acknowledging they were outgunned. The lobbyists were almost nowhere in sight, with some confessing to friends like Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman David Obey, "The President has all the cards." Said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles: "The campaign is gone. No one is going to take on the President of the United States...
...sports lawyer, Helmick claimed to have formed many of his business associations before he came to the USOC and maintained that he "accepted business only for valid business reasons." He said he was leaving the USOC to ensure that it would not be "paralyzed" by controversy. But William E. Simon, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who was USOC president from 1981 to 1985, had a very different view. Helmick, he said, had committed an "impropriety" that made his resignation "necessary...
...conservative and a star. His personal appearance fee has leaped from $1,200 three years ago, when his show was first syndicated, to $25,000. His "Rush to Excellence" speaking tours sell out and do a brisk business in Rush T shirts and bumper stickers. He has signed with Simon & Schuster to write a book, The Way Things Ought to Be, and is planning with Republican media mastermind Roger Ailes a half-hour nightly Rush to television. And, accolade of accolades, the moon-faced monologuist had his portrait painted by LeRoy Neiman...