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...stories in recent years have dominated the British news and gripped the public as much as the plight of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. And with Saturday marking the first anniversary of the 4-year-old's disappearance from her family's vacation apartment in the Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz, the ongoing media circus is again revving into overdrive. "There will be wall-to-wall coverage," says Roy Greenslade, a British media critic...
...Indeed, it has already begun. A two-hour television documentary about the girl's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, was broadcast nationally last Wednesday night. It accorded sympathetic treatment to the McCanns, who remain official suspects in the investigation. The couple were portrayed as clearly anguished victims, and they were given a chance to renew their appeal for information to help find Madeleine, whom they believe is still alive. Greenslade expects most of the anniversary coverage will likewise hew to a "respectful" line toward the couple...
...That attitude has not always been in evidence over these last 12 months. The McCann story has been fueled by accusations, rumors, leaks - many of them aimed at the McCanns - and plot twists that would strain credulity even in a work of fiction...
Bold but never naked ambition is the animating force of Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Ballantine), the audacious book by Nina DiSesa, chairman of the flagship New York City office of the advertising agency McCann Erickson. She lets out a war whoop, intent on "breaking down the barriers of that impenetrable bastion of male arrogance and supremacy: 'the boys club.'" One weapon, she confides, is "the Art of S&M (Seduction and Manipulation)." One of DiSesa's guiding principles, however, is, "Don't confuse seduction with sex (one is a brilliant business tactic...
...received from notable male authors. “Again, as a female author, it’s all about how you’re framed,” she says. “That’s why having the blurbs is so important. Having male authors like Colum McCann and [J.M.] Coetzee blurb your book allows you, then, to be framed as a certain kind of literary writer.”“These are all things I never would have thought about before I actually wrote the book,” she says. “That?...