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...goal was to counter the prosecution's picture of Simpson as a jealous ex-husband by portraying him instead as a concerned friend and confidant to a troubled woman. In addition, Baker seemed to be laying groundwork for the theory that other people in Nicole's life might have had reason to kill her. Many legal observers, however, called the tactic risky. "Unless showing her bad character points in some clear way to showing that somebody else committed the crime," says Welsh White, a criminal-law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, "I think it's going to be more...
...plaintiffs also forged into new territory in their opening statements. Daniel Petrocelli, representing Ron Goldman's father, moved the estimated time of the murder to 20 minutes later, to coincide with the time a neighbor, Robert Heidstra, says he heard male voices shouting and saw a car similar to Simpson's Bronco leaving the scene. Petrocelli also promised to show a photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, of the type that left prints at the murder scene and that Simpson has denied owning. TIME has learned that the plaintiffs also plan to present more evidence of domestic violence, beginning...
...Simpson, seen coming and going from the courthouse, appears heavier and walks more stiffly. The attack on his ex-wife's life-style, which parallels his contention that drug dealers had something to do with her murder, probably means that he is calling the shots in this trial even more than he did the last time around...
...Tolstoy, who peopled their worlds like gods, is denied to 20th century writers who must cope with ironies and layers of deconstruction (one strategy is to distance the reader from the hero and keep him a mystery, as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in The Great Gatsby). So pity Mona Simpson, a talented young novelist (Anywhere but Here) whose new book, A Regular Guy (Knopf; 372 pages; $25), begins with this sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this is a scatological work or a racy read about...
...goes. The best and most vivid part of the book is its 75-page-long beginning, which sets up an ultimately flaccid, indistinct narrative. Simpson can be a strong, sinewy writer, and it may be that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing...