J203 Assignment #8

1. Soft Lead: a List Lead.
Student Loan companies are offering incentives to administrative officials for steering college kids to their companies, in an increasingly competitive business.

2. Soft Lead
In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, white residents have received four times more in homeowners insurance than blacks, due to blacks general distrust with the government.


3. Soft Lead
Swedish mobster, Bo Stefan Eriksson, went on trail Monday morning; he is fighting embezzlement and auto theft charges.

4. Hard Lead
Snoop Dogg, the successful actor, singer and Girls Gone Wild contributor, was suspected Monday morning to be involved in a terror plot to hijack an airplane headed to New York. His weapon of mass destruction was a 21-inch collapsible baton, concealed in his laptop case. After being released without arrest, Snoop Dogg said the baton was a prop for a movie he was filming in New York and that it did not have cocaine hidden in the handle end, stored in a convenient, screw on cap which made it appear as if it were just part of the weapon. Mr. Dogg comes out with a new record in December labeled, "My Life as an Islamic Extremist."

5. Hard Lead
The citizens of America are beginning to hear the rumble. The free ground beneath their feet is starting to shift. The glorious winds of truth and persuasion are dying down, as the ship know as journalism is taken by the current, no longer as in control of it's own destiny. American journalism is slipping further from the freedom of press towards the torture racks of a Chinese prison.

6. Hard Lead
To combat illiteracy in urban schools, superintendents are introducing death as an insensitive. Not, of course, for the children who do not perform well, but in the reading material. How can a child who is five, be expected to read at the rate of an eight-year-old? Books with a backbone will encourage youngsters to read and succeed.