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...team led by Paul S. Bernstein '81 won the competition after a final round yesterday against the runner-up team captained by Steven A. Wolfe '82. The winners will travel to the University of Connecticut in Storrs to match wits with five or six other college teams...
Gunter Wallraff's brand of muckraking goes one step beyond that of America's most celebrated jounalists, Woodward and Bernstein. Rather than inducing government employees to lead to the press, Wallraff becomes an employee himself, and then writes about his experiences, exposing the graft, deception and mistreatment he encounters along the way. His technique requires few accessories--false identification, perhaps, a varied wardrobe, change of moustache and glasses--for the most part, though, his own resourcefulness time and again enables him to escape from tight situations...
...1970s, an age of specialization, reporters like Murrow had metamorphosed into "investigative journalists" like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the enterprising Washington Post reporters who cracked the smilingly slick evil of Richard Nixon. They continued the tradition, and if they didn't have Sinclair's poetic ability, drive and something of his anger, they were heroes of a sort to a shocked America...
...masterpiece of investigative journalism. The Brethren never reaches any bottom line--it gossips rather than exposes. This book will not reform the court, perhaps because it doesn't need to be reformed. The book is certainly a detailed account, but it is not investigative reporting in the Murrow or Bernstein or Woodward tradition. It is not Upton Sinclair muckraking--in fact, it veers close to the type of muckraking that made the word unstylish. It is truly "Inside the Supreme Court," as the jacket cover boasts. But 468 pages later, the boast sounds pretty empty...
SEPARATED. Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein, 35, who co-authored All the President's Men; and Essayist Nora Ephron, 38, vinegary author of Crazy Salad; after 3½ years of marriage, two children...