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...Milwaukee Journal, Reporter Nina Bernstein heard that undefended indigents were being jailed for months because they could not pay $100-to-$300 fines for offenses like jaywalking. She went after the story, helped by clerks who fed records of 899 inmates through a computer. Says Bernstein: "I interviewed the judges last and presented them with the evidence, and they were stunned." The courts freed hundreds of inmates, threw out 20,000 orders for jail commitment and told the county to provide attorneys for poor defendants. The computer's statistics, says Bernstein, "made our case airtight." She adds that without...
This week Bernstein and the Milwaukee Journal as well as Makinson and Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News are being recognized for their high-tech digging ! with awards from an association called Investigative Reporters & Editors, with headquarters at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Says I.R.E. Executive Director Steve Weinberg: "The computer is revolutionizing investigative reporting. There's just no way you could do some of those calculations by hand...
...show in which they appear: perhaps his only universally known song is Send In the Clowns, from 1973's A Little Night Music. He studied with the experimental composer Milton Babbitt and still prefers listening to serious work in the classical vein. Sondheim's West Side Story collaborator Leonard ( Bernstein has called him "compulsive and excessive," not least in his commitment to the idea that everything in a musical must strictly serve the task at hand. Even so, Sondheim's songbook made up a splendid 1977 review, Side by Side by Sondheim, which in turn became a beguiling two-record...
...even chic. This trend has created a boom for sellers of upscale children's clothes and accessories. At Baby Boxers, a Los Angeles manufacturer, items like $28 print shirts have pushed sales to more than $700,000 in the firm's first eight months. Says Co-Owner Jaye Bernstein: "Our business has just exploded." Many companies that made their name in adult apparel are now moving into the children's market. Esprit, a popular label founded in San Francisco in 1971, began its Esprit/Kids line in 1982, and the division will account for some 20% of the company's projected...
Apparently not proud enough to sign her name to the deed, however, a fact that has been causing no end of difficulty for Philippine government lawyers. The Bernstein testimony, accompanied by a chart, was a major boost to the effort to trace ownership through the layers of dummy companies. Explaining a typical deal, Joseph Bernstein told how he helped create a holding company in the Netherlands Antilles that was itself held by three firms in Panama, the stock of which had no identified owner...