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...also to tell a story clearly, entertainingly and quickly. News producers, documentarians--and, yes, magazine writers--selectively edit raw material and get accused of cherry-picking facts and quotes. But on an entertainment show the pressure to deliver drama is high, and the standards of acceptable fudging are shadier. The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV's reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn't exist...
...Duterte leaves his brother's birthday party after midnight. He sends his security home and leads a walking tour of Davao's shadier streets. It's late but the mayor wants to prove that Davao is safe, anywhere, any time. He ambles past small shops, vendors, restaurants and street corners favored by local hookers. Some of the girls greet him with handshakes and hugs, which he returns with jokes, kisses on the cheek, and some pocket money. "I wanted to end prostitution," he says, "but I had no jobs to give them...
...less reminiscent of today's troubles than you might think. Grad student Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) gets engaged and breaks the rule of rules by telling her fiance she's a spy. This bad move gets him killed and leads Sydney to discover that some of her superiors are shadier than she'd suspected...
...federal racketeering trial is expected to last 12 weeks, just like a visiting summer show. Kaplan, a pale, balding, pug-nosed 41-year-old with increasingly dark circles around his eyes, sits attentively in court as a cast of witnesses describe the shadier side of what he and his defense lawyers insist is a legitimate business. John Givens, an admitted mobster turned government witness, recently told of how he once sliced off a man's ear and slit another's nostrils to insert lit cigars...
...Airways flight attendant; on his way to Okinawa, Blair actually met with Lucie's dad, Tim, who is trying to put pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking attractive Western women to Japanese businessmen willing to pay top dollar for the chance to sit next to and fondle blondes...