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    O.J Simpon's complicated legacy; Ukraine passes new draft law

    O.J. Simpson leaves behind a complicated cultural legacy. Ukraine's parliament has adopted a law to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.
    by Suzanne Nuyen Apr 12, 2024 2 minutes
    O.J. Simpson, pictured in September 2008 in Las Vegas, died Wednesday, according to a statement from his family.

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    Orenthal James Simpson, known as O.J., died yesterday at 76 after a battle with cancer. Before his infamy in the so-called "trial of the century" of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, Simpson was a football star and Hollywood actor.

    • "Audiences loved him," she. "And that's why it was ." Del Barco says that the reaction to the verdict back then was somewhat divided along racial lines. Some White Angelenos she spoke to were outraged. But some Black Angelenos felt conflicted, saying that whether or not Simpson committed the murder, for once, justice was on the side of a Black man. 

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