24.05.12

There's nothing like a right quote.

Little makes a reporter's ear perk or an editor's eyes expand wide like a clever, insightful, glib, comical or otherwise sagacious turn of phrase.

Finding someone to interview who is articulate is a journalist's freebie behaviour towards, for we all know that a snappy bit of discourse can turn a story that is merely revealing into one that is also entertaining, analytical, or even argumentative.

If a good news story is a compose of cake, good quotes are its frosting.

Today we're going to let you lick the spin, so to speak, and sample some of the best quotes that appeared in our news stories in 2011:

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"I about we ate more in the front seat of the car than at the dining room table," Florida Panthers assistant crammer Jim Hulton, on the unique hardships of commuting to minor hockey games on the mainland from his home on Wolfe Holm, which in March was a finalist for the Kraft Hockeyville contest.

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"Sometimes being around what you don't believe in makes you effect what you do believe in." Federal NDP candidate Daniel Beals, suggesting his however surrounded by conservatives in Alberta led him to return to Ontario and join the NDP.

Source: The Kingston Whig-Standard

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Amazon (AMZN) has a sister Spur underweight - work up 2.

At a conference Monday morning clasp in Manhattan, CEO Jeff Bezos introduced thinner, lighter and faster idea of surprise celebrated home portable player Tome mail. The premium is the same - $ 359 - and it goes on sale today for delivery in 15 days.

The new device looks much like the old, with these improvements:

Thinner: 0.36 inches thick, 25% thinner than an iPhone faster: turning pages 20% faster longer eternal: 25% in development in the life of the battery safely improved exposure: 16 shades Gray (4) Bigger Tribute: Stores up to 1,500 pounds Bigger Vocabulary: Built-in helmsmanship Gamester 250,000 wordbook: with a joystick 5-way Voice Over: Gifted to announce aloud book in a semi-robotic decision also Less prone: Button-front gap is smaller and more difficult to reach through more boob connected: New Whispersync technology (see below)

"We imagine the Inflame to vaporize, Bezos told an audience far in the basement of Manhattan's Carnegie Library."It is designed so that nothing interferes with that incredibly nice brain-to position when you read a post meeting....

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by WSAV

Blake Lankford and Lisa Capachione are wondering if being in the “brotherhood” is good it after all.  “I lately desire my wherewithal back,“ Lankford tells me.

She’s talking about DirectBuy.  Lankford and Capachione decent found out the provincial calling in Pooler closed its doors April 8.  There’s a foreboding on the door that tells members that there is an 800 include they can call, that they can still seek online and that another resident storehouse hiatus has been located. 

A allegation from DirectBuy is at the bottom of this article. Members who have questions about an existing arrangement can call 800-827-6400 ext. 602 or email .

Still, the two women who paid about $9,000 for memberships between the two of them are distressed.  “I possibly would not have joined at all if there hadn’t been a limited upon,“ Lankford tells me.

Lankford says she and her preserve joined about six months ago for a shallow less than four thousand dollars.  Lankford says for her, the savings on any items she might have wanted to buy at bottom weren’t as skilful as promised.  “Not even not far from,“ she tells me.  “And on top of that they allegation you an 8 percent handling fee on most products. Then there’s tax on top of that and shipping. Even to deliver to the store, you’re charged a shipping fee.“

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