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Soon, the characters the media created invent their own media. The independent counsel writes a "narrative" that is sold as a novel in airport book-stores, and is compared by literary scholars to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. Congress releases a film in which the main character--the president--hems and haws and gets caught up in the definition of what...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...told to them, complete with characters and a thickening plot. Therefore, they survey the field of possible stories, pluck out one of enough importance and plant row after row after ream of it--their cash crop. O.J. Simpson warmed up the crowd a few years ago for today's main event, Bill and Monica. Mark and Sammy had their home run contest at intermission...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Holy Cross's main offensive threat may become senior running back Joe Andrews, who has averaged 4.7 yards per carry and has 407 on 79 tries this season...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Faces Tough Holy Cross D | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...want this to be our main focus right now," said Jobe G. Danganan '99, MSA chair emeritus. "This was Harvard's largest event last year...

Author: By Adam C. Weiss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MSA to Host Affirmative Action Panel | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...main purpose is to translate the philosophy of Outward Bound and [of] organizations like it into forms that can be used in the classroom, the school, the community," he says...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outward Bound Harvard-Style | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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