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.R00* WOWS;
I
t was around
lunchtime, and
the floor of the
Grain Room at the
Chicago Board of
Trade was unusually
quiet.
Instead of showing
A
wheat and soybean
HARRY
future trading prices,
KIRSBAUM every video monitor at
Columnist
every trading desk was
tuned to local news as
the O.J. Simpson verdict was
announced.
I remember the gasp heard around
the room as the Juice got his freedom. I
also remember some cheers.
There's been much talk since then
that the O.J. Simpson
trial had exposed a
racial divide that most
whites thought was
long a aone.
0
I haven't thought
much about the trial
— at least until the
Scott Peterson verdict
came out last week.
I haven't paid as much
attention to the story of
Scott, Laci, Connor and
Amber as I had of 0.1
Nicole and Ron, but
wasn't Peterson con-
victed on the same
level of circumstantial
evidence that O.J. was
found not guilty?
O.J. was famous
even before the
Dream Team and
racism seeped into the Rice
trial. The Petersons
were not famous; but
the timing of Laci's disappearance
during Christmas, the attractiveness
of the couple, and the appearance of
Amber Frey made the trial national
in scope.
Simpson was later found "liable" for
the deaths in civil court and has taken
his "search for the killers" to public golf
courses in Florida.
Peterson could face the death penalty
in his sentencing hearing later this
month, but we can all expect a round of
appeals.
I wonder what would happen if the
Harry Kirsbaums e-mail address is
lilcirsbaum@thejewishnews.com
fates of Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ron Goldman were delayed 10 years;
would the verdict be the same? Could
the same level of circumstantial evi-
dence that convicted Scott convict the
Juice?
Political Predictions
In Iraq this week, the fight in Fallujah is
nearly over, as the hundreds of U.S.-
trained Iraqi troops who chose not to
desert joined with U.S. forces to root
out the hundreds of insurgents who
didn't get the memo that they were sup-
posed to head to Mosul or Baghdad.
Now that Secretary of State Colin
Powell is resigning and will probably be
replaced by National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice, there is no longer a
moderate voice in Bush's war cabinet;
and the number of cabinet members
who actually fought in a war has been
reduced to one, Donald Rumsfeld,
who I believed served in the War of
1812.
Democracy is on the march. I just
wish more Iraqis were really willing to
march with us.
And while we're on
the subject of the cabi-
net shuffle, Bill
O'Reilly made a case
for appointing former
President Bill Clinton
as secretary of state on
his Nov. 15 O'Reilly
Factor broadcast.
Why should he have
all the fun?
I have my own pre-
diction based on
events from last week-
end:
Vice President Dick
Cheney will check
into the hospital
because of "cold symp-
toms" once too often
within the next year,
Powell
and he will resign.
President Bush will
appoint former New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani as successor.
Rudy will then run for president in
2008 against Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton in a rematch of their not-to-be
New York senatorial bout in 2000
(Rudy didn't run due to his prostate
cancer diagnosis).
Don King will not be involved, but
he will try to sell out Madison Square
Garden anyway.