O.J. Simpson

The state Democratic Party has just gone one step past the Whitewater analogy, reaching for another recent American lowlight to characterize the ongoing Republican pursuit of Eliot Spitzer.

Here's a statement from consultant Jonathan Rosen in response to Republican state Senator George Winner's call for another hearing:

“These guys just don’t know when to quit. The Senate Republicans holding an ethics hearing is like O.J. searching for the real killer. Senate Republicans should end the partisan theatrics and join the Governor in getting back to work on the real issues that matter to working families. Let’s end the show trial, leave the investigating to the investigators, and get back to work.”

Yesterday, Alpha Media Group--the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million--announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.

Maxim and Blender will be the chief beneficiaries of the new owners' money and time from now on, with plans to increase the rate-base for Blender, the music and lifestyle magazine, to 1 million by January 2009.

Maxim will get "Stuff for Men" as a section of the magazine, now that the title no longer has to compete with FHM magazine, the other lad-shopping mag.

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I have to begin, unfortunately, by correcting the record: In a story about Alan Hevesi in this week's paper, I made the bone-headed error of attributing a number of quotes to Ken Sunshine that weren't his. I didn't interview him for the story on the record or off, and the inclusion of his name is directly due to a major error in communication on my part. I sincerely apologize.

Rebecca Dana has a story about the O.J. Simpson interview with Judith Regan and ensuing controversy.

Jason Horowitz looks at the competition between Rudy Giuliani and John McCain for George W. Bush's fund-raisers, and quotes a number of the donors saying distinctly uncharitable things about the competition.

Steve Kornacki explains the (theoretical!) possibility of a coup against incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

John Koblin has a piece about Donald Trump's proposed 45-story tower on Spring Street, which could be "far and away the most conspicuous symbol in the neighborhood."

And Michael Calderone writes about a new newspaper in D.C. -- Azi Paybarah

In a two-part Fox special airing Nov. 27 and 29, O.J. Simpson will talk about how he could have killed his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her boyfriend, Ron Goldman, if he had killed them, which, of course, he didn't. Or "didn't."

If you'd prefer your stomach-turning fake-confessions in book-form, "If I Did It: Here's How It Happened" hits bookstore shelves Nov. 30, under Judith Regan's HarperCollins imprint. The truth comes out, finally--thanks to some clever vertical integration at News Corp.  read more »

The full release follows. —Rebecca Dana

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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word , by Randall Kennedy.  read more »

Regardless of who wins the Florida vote joust, it will be awhile before this campaign blurs out of m  read more »

It's another American Tragedy.  read more »

Court TV has been in ratings trouble since the end of the O.J. Simpson trial.  read more »

The sociologist Alan Wolfe, who has just written a book, seems to have found a common belief system  read more »

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Johnnie Cochran had finished his speech and returned to his seat next to the Haitian immigrant Abner  read more »

We are truly in a fun house of justice, a kind of deconstructed reality where everyone brings to the  read more »