Word: scooped
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...always going to be hard to keep a lid on a story like this. As President Bill Clinton learned to his cost, the U.S. website The Drudge Report likes nothing better than a juicy secret. Following its scoop last week when the site published a photo of Democratic front-runner Barack Obama wearing Kenyan tribal robes, Drudge yesterday unveiled its "world exclusive" about "Harry the Hero" and his Afghanistan adventures. After the Drudge piece appeared, the Ministry of Defence confirmed its substance, setting the world's media on the hunt with the same dedication that the Prince has shown towards...
...construction-workers unions refused to back him. Something similar happened in 1988, when white working-class Democrats couldn't stomach Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty. In both years, the primaries exposed bitter ideological divisions that came back to haunt the party in November. In 1972 Democrat Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in his bid for blue-collar primary votes, called McGovern the candidate of "amnesty, acid and abortion"--a line that Richard Nixon borrowed to devastating effect. In 1988 it was a young Al Gore who first brought up Dukakis' furlough program for convicted murderers in Massachusetts, a program that George...
...right handed scoop shot by Princeton's Marcus Schroeder puts the Tigers up 6. Lin takes a shot on the other end, misses, hustles for the board but can't get it. Princeton ball, timeout Harvard, trailing...
...Scoops '08 As the "first-ever daily national student newspaper," Scoops'08 brings together nearly 300 high school and college journalists from across the country. The founders, a Massachusetts high school student and a Yale sophomore, met as interns for Hillary Clinton's campaign, though both argue the site is non-partisan. The newspaper recently incorporated this summer as a not-for-profit entity called Scoop Media, Inc., enjoying pro bono legal assistance from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. It also draws guidance from an advisory board that includes New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter...
...Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...