Word: oelsner
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...documentation that he might be happy to read. The Times merely excerpted Saul Bellow's Nobel acceptance speech. It played as the day's most important story the Supreme Court decision on low-cost housing in the suburbs. The story was well reported and analyzed by Lesley Oelsner, but the Times printed not one full sentence from either the majority or minority court opinions. It did not even excerpt Theodore Sorensen's statement withdrawing from his CIA appointment. The New Times has become an erratic supplier of the raw materials of history...
Most major bureaus now have law school graduates adept at slicing through legalistic gristle. Among them: Carl Stern of NBC, Jack Landau of the Newhouse chain, Wayne Greer of the Wall Street Journal, Lesley Oelsner of the New York Times and David Beckwith of TIME. Several have gained special recognition for their Watergate coverage. Stern, 36, became familiar to millions of viewers of the televised Watergate hearings when NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor would turn to his colleague and inquire, "What's the law on that, Carl?" After one of Stern's lucid explanations on some fine point...
...thrice-weekly column on moods and minutiae of the city is occasionally sentimental, but it is fresh, impressionistic reportage. With a welcome minimum of liberation cant, Judy Klemesrud and Deirdre Carmody have unearthed an impressive number of offbeat stories about how women's lives are changing. Lesley Oelsner has done expert law reporting on such complex issues as court challenges and sentencing and the juvenile justice system...
...proposal by Fuld, the state's top judicial official, was a response to a survey of New York's state and federal courts by the New York Times's Lesley Oelsner. She found that sentences are generally much shorter now than they used to be. She also found a wide variation in sentences now given, usually having more to do with the individual judge's attitude than with the offender's background. Without any formal standards to guide them, judges fell back on their instincts, experience or prejudices. In practice what has happened, in case...