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...Come on, shoot over me, you know you can make it’.”But the majority of the male scout team has not achieved the same limelight and exposure Puchtel experienced last year. They are former high-school or JV players simply looking for a competitive outlet. “I was probably watching [Puchtel] in his games last year,” Ahmed said. “But I didn’t even know it.”But despite the lack of notoriety, these players have taken full advantage of the opportunity to play...
...Needless to say, NBC is by no means the first outlet to alter their official nomenclature. According to Editor & Publisher writer, Anna Crane, the Los Angeles Times was amongst the first media outlets to shed the qualifiers and label the fighting directly as a civil war. Other organizations have since fallen into line. The Christian Science Monitor likes “deepening civil war,” while Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria is pretty direct: “We’re in the middle of a civil war and are being shot at by both sides...
...urban legends of our society is the supposedly growing trend of "boomerangs" - youngish adults who move back in with their parents. Nearly every news outlet including TIME has dug up some slob to represent this trend: a college grad couch potato who plays Grand Theft Auto all day, refusing to take a low-paying starter job or move out into the real world. Last week both USA Today and ABC's World News Tonight piled on the ridicule, thanks to yet another book on quarterlifers in a quagmire...
...remain behind closed doors. The entire 10-person commission will brief the President this Wednesday and then repeat the lesson for congressional leaders, both incoming and outgoing, later the same day. What happens next is designed to be even more convincing: several days of nonstop interviews on every media outlet, network and cable-TV station--a media blitz that will run well into the Sunday-morning news programs...
...same store also carried mosquito spray and those bug zappers that you plug into a power outlet, hoping it will kill all the mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...