She was the razor-sharp newspaper editor and history major at Princeton who examined American socialism, and the Supreme Court clerk for a legal giant, Thurgood Marshall, who nicknamed her "Shorty".
At a time of sharp cutbacks, newspapers are reluctant to take on the costs associated with pursuing such investigations.
If you want to keep the bone in, pad the sharp parts with newspaper or butcher paper before wrapping.
The popularity of Craigslist, the ninth most popular website in America, has contributed to a sharp decline in newspapers' classified-advertising revenue (see chart 1)—a business where many newspapers have had comfortable local monopolies for decades.
Her complaints drew a sharp response from newspapers friendly to the government: "Nelson Mandela is a product of the ANC, and the party is right to highlight that link whenever necessary," said an editorial in the Citizen daily.
It was an unexpectedly sharp rebuke from the newspaper, and it seemed to catch the Bloomberg campaign off guard.
Sharp Objects concerns a newspaper reporter who returns to her Missouri hometown to investigate a series of murders of young girls.
In the spring of 2007, the board raised the dividend to 23 cents, from 17.5 cents, a move that many analysts said was unwise in light of the sharp downturn in the newspaper industry.
Susan Pinkus, director of polling for The Los Angeles Times, dismissed the Bush campaign's sharp questions about her newspaper's poll as "negative spin" in a public response posted on the ABC News political website, "The Note".
But the Kennedy saga is a sharp reminder that a newspaper that prides itself on getting things right must exercise great discipline before pushing the button on a fast-breaking story.
Until now, the family and its allies on the board have effectively controlled the Class A election as well as the Class B. But in recent years, a falling stock price, a sharp downturn for the newspaper industry and mounting shareholder discontent have relaxed that grip as never before.
