Word: subhead
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...Herald’s Harvard-hating headline—which ran with the subhead, “Cops vow crackdown on rowdy drunks,” and appeared above a picture of pugnacious Pacer, Ron Artest—helped boost sales of the 50-cent rag, which sold out before noon at 7-11 in the Square, according to an employee who wouldn’t give his name but would sell Gadfly a Slurpee...
...message of the week was: You know where Bush stands. You can't be sure about Kerry. But that headline also came with a misleading subhead: Bush is fighting the war against terrorism, and Kerry wouldn't. It was a theme that was pounded from the very start of the convention, and it depended on a sly conflation--the notion that the war in Iraq and the war against the 9/11 terrorists were one and the same. We heard far more about Bush in the World Trade Center rubble than we did about the U.S. in the Iraqi quagmire...
...headline in TIME this week alerts us: SCOURGE OF THE PLAYGROUND. The subhead reads, "It's dodge ball, believe it of not. More schools are banning the childhood game, saying it's too violent." Tamala Edwards' article reports that "in a growing number of school districts in such states as Texas, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts, circles of kids dodging and throwing balls at one another have been banned from gym class...Opponents warn that dodge ball - also called murder ball and killer ball in some places - could be an incubator for later aggressive, even violent behavior...