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However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...
...team that has dominated collegesquash for so long it would be a Pyrrhic title andthe season as dominating as it was, still adisappointment.CrimsonPaul S. GutmanHALL OF FAMER:Freshman COLBY HALLposted a 9-4, 9-0, 9-5 win over Princeton's EMILYEYNON in the Tigers' 5-4 squeaker yesterday...
...years ago, 12 hours before a anxiety-filled final in a Science core, an acquaintance frantically called me over to a Loker Commons television to watch Charlie Ward duel P.J. Brown in the Knicks' most Pyrrhic of victories...
...plummets in the adjoining Science Center lecture hall, Professor of Chemistry Gregory L. Verdine is also forced to advertise. At seven cents a copy, profits for both classes dip below zero but thankfully remain above average variable cost of production so both courses operate in the short run. A Pyrrhic victory...
Clinton has disappointed me, Starr has angered me, Tripp has disgusted me, and Lewinsky has embarrassed me, but it took Charles Krauthammer to really tick me off [ESSAY, Sept. 28]. His commentary "Clinton's Pyrrhic Victory" implies that the two-thirds of the American public who support Clinton are mindless sheep, being pushed willy-nilly by pollsters and incapable of independent judgment. Bill Clinton has not somehow won me over with lies and manipulation; I never thought his personal character was without blemish. What he has done is the job we chose him to do, and overall he's done...