Word: bernard
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Embarrassment isn't a strong enough word for what the department's top brass is feeling. While Police Chief Bernard Parks blames an undersized internal affairs budget for the LAPD's inability to self-police, the department has spared no expense investigating Perez's leads into erroneous convictions. Investigators visited jails throughout California and as far away as South America to corroborate Perez's stories with suspects he said were wrongly convicted, and they have thus far produced 99 cases in which they're confident Rampart CRASH produced bogus convictions. L.A. County D.A. Gil Garcetti believes there could be thousands...
...married couples each year. President Clinton has vowed to veto the act, but House Republicans are chalking up a victory anyway. "This has been a Republican sticking point for a long time because they know how popular it could be with the electorate," says TIME senior economics writer Bernard Baumohl. "And now it looks like the Democrats have decided to capitalize on the national mood and come up with their own - albeit less generous - version," worth roughly $95 billion...
...venture capitalist's private plane. Time Warner, TIME's parent company, last year scrapped plans to launch a women's information cable network, concluding that it would not be profitable. But Laybourne was able to attract investments from the likes of Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft), Bernard Arnault (chairman of the luxury-goods company LVMH) and America Online (which plans to merge with Time Warner), building a programming fund of more than $400 million. She has also drawn a raft of veteran producers and, as business partners, the Hollywood production team of Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach...