Word: presse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issues of the day centered mainly around the future of journalism with regard to the Internet and the way in which the press plans to tackle Election...
Last week the ache was unmistakable--and even touching--but the 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out by it. Whenever Gore came on too strong, the room erupted in a collective jeer, like a gang of 15-year-old Heathers cutting down some hapless nerd...
Poor Gore. For months the press has been hammering him for taking the nomination for granted and not showing emotion. Now it's hammering him for trying too hard and showing too much. Of course he was sometimes overbearing at Dartmouth--asking faux-Clintonian personal questions ("How old is your child, Corey?") and then, after the event, sitting on the lip of the stage for 90 minutes to expound--impressively, by the way--on policy until everyone was exhausted, and Tipper said, "Al, I'm going to have to go." But the interesting question isn't whether Gore's exhibitionism...
Throughout the summer and into the fall, law-enforcement authorities in more than 115 countries had been looking for Frankel. The 6-ft., 135-lb., mousy-haired, bespectacled, bumbling, barred-for-life stockbroker had been transformed by the tabloid press into a sort of postmodern James Bond villain--one part Goldfinger, one part Woody Allen. He had eluded authorities for four months while traveling with a retinue of women, as rumors spread of his living large while lying low. Law-enforcement officials at first suspected that he was in Israel, then Brazil, and finally admitted they had no idea where...
...their parents were brought in. The four arrested youths were charged with such offenses as inciting violence, aggravated menacing and ethnic intimidation. One was also charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder; another checked into a medical center for psychiatric evaluation. All told, 11 students were suspended. At a press conference on Friday, Cleveland Mayor Michael White said, "There is going to be a zero tolerance to any child bringing violence into a school." Parents and lawyers for the suspects contended that authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings. Dan Shields, an attorney for two of the suspended students...