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Gardner and Fortgang held serve to scoop thematch and a 2-1 advantage into the Tigers' claws...
...York Daily News for 14 years, which appears in more than 60 other U.S. papers. She quickly took sides, advising Ivana to "stop sobbing over Donald Juan." Such partisanship might be harshly judged in a report about German unification. But Smith -- and the rest of the scoop troop -- is to objective reporting what Hulk Hogan is to Olympic wrestling. Almost anything goes...
...story originated when Hurst, 42, a veteran Moscow reporter who joined CNN in 1988, spoke on the phone with what he described as a "well-informed and usually reliable Communist Party source." Hurst relayed his scoop to international managing editor Eason Jordan in CNN's Atlanta headquarters, and then to executive vice president Ed Turner (no relation to CNN founder Ted). The Moscow reporter would not identify his informant but told his bosses of several other stories in which the source had given accurate information. That persuaded Turner to run the story...
There is a sort of poetry in absorbing the details of the construction process. Many a day have I laid aside my books and stared intensely at the backhoes, as they scoop dirt up, swivel around, dump it elsewhere and pat it down. This is an immense improvement over watching the cars that sat stationary in the lot all day, which was the only distraction my window provided before the construction began...
Just like an eager young hunter, the Washington Times is proud of its first big trophy: Congressman Barney Frank, whom the paper bagged in a story two months ago about a male-prostitution scandal. The paper followed up that scoop two weeks ago with claims that Frank and other Congressmen used the private House of Representatives gymnasium for sexual frolics. Though editor in chief Arnaud de Borchgrave bristles at the notion that the Times is turning to tabloid-style journalism to make its mark in the nation's capital, he slyly promises "more to come." Some Washingtonians may take that...