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...local journalism grants. Neuharth raised the foundation's profile by creating journalism libraries across Eastern Europe and awarding generous cash prizes to free-speech supporters. The organization also paid $15 million for luxurious new headquarters in Arlington, including $1 million for artwork, and gave Neuharth a $130,000 annual fee for the part-time chairman...
...cities, defendants are usually assigned attorneys by the court. Often these lawyers, who tend to be young and inexperienced or old and tired, receive only $20 to $25 an hour. Capital cases go for as little as $400. At Detroit's Recorder's Court, lawyers are paid a flat fee: $1,400 for first- degree murder, $750 for lesser offenses that carry up to a life sentence. "The more time you spend on a case, the less money you make," says attorney David Steingold, a 14-year veteran. Hence lawyers have learned to plead cases quickly and forgo time-consuming...
...variation on court-appointed attorneys, popular in rural areas, is a contract system under which lawyers receive a flat rate. The fee is usually so meager that these attorneys maintain a private practice on the side. Such a system, says Bright, results in "lawyers who view their responsibilities as unwanted burdens, have no inclination to help the client and have no incentive to learn or to develop criminal trial skills." When expenses mount, they economize by refusing the collect calls of their jailed clients. Under a contract system, says L.A.'s Tennenbaum, "you don't investigate...
...questioning the principle of absolute priority for college athletes. That's who the facilities were built for. But as long as the Athletic Department is charging a fee for participation cards, it's accepting the fact that recreational users are a constituency, too. Perhaps it might find ways, through careful scheduling, to accommodate the College without so frequently banishing the rest of us. It might collect all the blackout times and dates on a single notice (something that's never been done). It might even leave copies of such a notice, regularly updated, where we could pick them up. Then...
...prize. Watson, 72, recalls with delight how he and Gunn "got right down on my living room floor, counted the cash and split it fifty-fifty." The pair was looking forward to another tournament, the first of the season, and had already paid the $100 entrance fee. It was to be last Sunday...