Time magazine, in its cover story this week, asked, "Can Anyone Stop Hillary?" And now comes the Times with two more cover stories devoted to the former First Lady.
"It is the culmination of a trend we have seen building for five years," said Cal Morgan, the editorial director of Harper Perennial Originals, who until last year ran a blog called Fifty-Two Stories, devoted to short fiction.
I was appalled to learn that CBS last year devoted only three minutes of its nightly newscasts to the tragedy in Darfur, and that last month the networks and cable news outlets collectively ran 55 times as many stories devoted to the bizarre world of Michael Jackson as they did about the Darfur genocide.
In fact, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the company's not looking at just any spot for its first Apple Store – it's specifically been scouting spots within spitting distance of Samsung's global flagship store in Seoul's fancy Gangnam District, three stories devoted to all things Galaxy.
In the advent of the Internet, a guy named Ulrich Haarbürste wrote a series of fan-fic stories devoted to wrapping Roy Orbison in "clingfilm," and a guy named Michael Kelly created a bare-bones geocities-esque site for it.
We've seen a boom in interest in herbal, "natural," or "alternative" medicine, with best-selling books and major newsmagazine cover stories devoted to the powerful properties of plant-based remedies.
On 1 March 2009 the young reporters produced a series of stories devoted to the youth journalism in Ukraine and portrayed the young reporters participating in production of TV programming and cartoons.
Suicides and strange deaths happen in his stories — one shattering story is devoted to the back and forth on the telephone between a betrayed husband and the man in bed with his wife at that very moment — but their tone is alive with an appetite for experience as it is, and the certainty that religious epiphanies will arise from such ordinary experience.
That was the story with Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson) in the first Nolan film, but it was brief enough (that film being an origin tale, with less of the story actually devoted to plot, as it were) to be ignored.
