Word: scooped
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...Berlin, he had been TIME's Rome bureau chief in 1978. The week before the conclave that elected the virtually unknown Karol Wojtyla, TIME was one of just a handful of publications in the world to include him on its list of papabile. For years it was a legendary scoop in TIME circles. Jordan recalled last week that the first tip that the next pope might be Wojtyla did not come from on high, but was given to correspondent Roland Flamini by the young owner of a small Catholic book store. But back then, without a press blackout, they could...
...Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu...
...tell you that’s not quite so. But I’ve adopted new methods to defuse the pressure of deciding. I ask to sample flavors, I consult my apathetic friends, and, most of the time, I end up choosing two flavors, but only one scoop, please. (Calorie-counting is another tool I’ve added to my ever-more-complex arsenal of assessment over the years...
...Kujau's mood grew more somber when Judge Hans-Ulrich Schroeder declared him guilty, along with former Stern magazine Reporter Gerd Heidemann, of defrauding Stern of $3.8 million between 1981 and 1983. The German weekly had purchased 60 volumes of the phony diaries in what it billed as the "scoop of the post-World...
...that Heidemann had kept almost half the money. The journalist drew a prison term of 56 months for fraud. Kujau was sentenced to 54 months for fraud and forgery. Both were freed pending an appeal. The judge criticized Stern for the "bunker mentality" that encouraged editors to print their "scoop" without first establishing the diaries' authenticity...