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Further revelations about Diane Holliday, the Englishwoman who claims to have had Dodi Fayed's love child 15 months ago, have surfaced in Britain. The Sun tabloid has reprinted some of the letters with which Holliday reportedly "bombarded" Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed. "I am not a nutter or a gold digger," she wrote. The paper claims Holliday "began her quest by leaving a letter at the cemetery where Dodi was buried." The head of Al Fayed's security team called her claims about meeting Dodi "garbage." The Sun also reveals that Holliday purportedly attempted to sell her daughter...
...just four years ago, The Winter Olympics were a setting for scandal and controversy and tabloid headlines, all Nancy and Tonya, catty remarks and vainglorious ambition. What a difference an Olympiad makes. Now, in a near rustic city in Japan, the Games beckon once again as a refuge from the snares of the world, where the tawdry can be banished (alas, except for commercial logos) and where the most compelling mysteries involve the intricacies of quad jumps, clap skates, luge weight and curling. For Nagano is robed in that symbol of purity: snow, unsullied and ready for the pursuit...
Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and a whole cast of characters have filled the newspapers for the past several weeks with all the makings of a tabloid soap opera: sex, lies, videotape and a huge media frenzy. Yet, though the recent accusations may be sensational, it is important to remember that they are nothing more than speculation at this point. We simply don't yet know the facts of the case. They may not be fully available for months or years, if ever. Until we know more, any attempt to pass judgment on the President rests on little more than speculation...
Second, the article containing quotes of friends, family and acquaintances of Elster's smacked of the kind of tabloid journalism that I pray The Crimson does not endorse. An undergraduate in trouble with the law should not be subjected to the humiliation of an article in which people that know him talk pejoratively about his personality or relationships...
Simon got the idea for The Capeman nearly a decade ago, recalling a famous crime from his New York City childhood. Agron and an accomplice--dubbed the Capeman and the Umbrella Man because witnesses identified them by those accoutrements--made tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals...