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Murder most foul
About the scheme by publisher Judith Regan to publish O.J. Simpson's "hypothetical" confession, entitled "If I Did It," after displaying the sniveling wretch on Fox TV and taking orders from now-disgusted booksellers without telling them the content of the book: All I can think is that this makes the hardest of hardcore porn seems like "It's a Wonderful Life." Even Patricia Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, who knows that business is business, called it "sickening."
For some people, there's no bottom but the line.
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