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...sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list of 36 news stories offered by bureau chiefs around the country. Some stories will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main page-one news story, which is at the heart of each day's urgency. Conversation rattles around the table. Someone's heard unfavorable comments from sources about Labor's standing among local Israelis. Has party leader Mark Latham alienated the influential Jewish community? Whittaker's asked...
...solid story," she says. "But when they're putting a paper together at such high pressure, people make decisions based on gut instinct." Of course, sometimes the decision is simple. At around 8 p.m., as copy is bombarding the backbench - including the free trade story, which will be the splash - Whittaker's told a young girl has been set on fire in a Sydney park. The only reporter on deck in the Sydney bureau is hurriedly contacted and sent to the hospital where the girl's been taken. Media are not allowed inside, so he waits in the wintry darkness...
...problem with being a full-time host, Maloof has discovered, is that you have to be approachable. As teams of strippers practice water volleyball for the upcoming $10,000 tournament, women in mermaid tails splash in a tank behind him and go-go dancers cut loose inside a giant clear balloon at the poolside bar, Maloof is approached by a parade of personalities: a guy who wants him to invest in a pizza restaurant; a middle-aged Arab who wants to be reimbursed for part of the $10,000 he just lost in blackjack; a singer who wants Maloof...
...them has taken a single stroke for the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team, but four future members of the Crimson made a big first splash at the United States Olympic Trials from July 7-14 in Long Beach, Calif...
...with minimal coaching and little experience against elite competition, Shoemaker failed to make as big a splash as in her first races. Then, according to Shoemaker, came a lucky break possible only in New England—for once...