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...your newspaper or TV station from the competition. Add headlines more sensationalized and jingoistic than your competitors, and you’ve instantly beaten them. Wooden information-deliverers like Carol Marin don’t stand a chance against the boisterous Bill O’Reilly and the seductive Paula Zahn. The media are a business, and their business is presenting biased information in a way that catches the eye of their target viewers...
...PAULA POUNDSTONE: Why she prefers humor to contrition...
...matter what you may have heard about her parenting skills, Paula Poundstone considers herself a fairly typical single mother. She helps with homework, reads bedtime stories and spends endless hours chauffeuring her three kids, ages 13, 10 and 6. But she does acknowledge certain aberrations. In her current act, the comedian jokes that one of the videos they all watch together is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "Against that backdrop," she says, "Mom looks pretty good...
...almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept the gold with a time of 2:26:20. Even earlier, 16 competitors, including British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, had left the historic town of Marathon, only to abandon the race because of the brutal hills and 35?C heat. (A few days later, Radcliffe would also fail to finish the 10,000 m, a meltdown the British press thought worthy of a Greek tragedy...
...Europe no longer has the prestige that once came from its hefty medal tallies, it can still take delight in outstanding individual performances - smaller stories, perhaps, but precious because of their rarity. Britain, shocked by Paula Radcliffe's twin flameouts in the marathon and 10,000 m, was lifted by 34-year-old Kelly Holmes' double gold success in the 800 m and 1,500 m. Russia celebrated a memorable 1-2-3 sweep in the women's long jump, while Germany rejoiced with canoeist Birgit Fischer, 42, who earned a gold and a silver, becoming the first woman ever...