Northern newspapers approached lynchings as though they were dog bites man stories, hardly worth a column of text.
Many family members have expressed skepticism that dogs could have killed their loved ones, saying their injuries appeared too devastating to have been the result of dog bites.
In another of its bleak ads, a young girl's dog bites a man who has been stalking her he seems a particularly menacing figure in the world of Japanese advertising.
So our ability to distinguish "man bites dog" from "dog bites man" hinges on the attention that we pay to ordering and grouping, that allows us to get two different meanings out of the same set of words.
Authorities began capturing dogs in the park this week after a mother and her infant boy were found dead and covered in dog bites on Dec. 29 and the bodies of a teenage couple were found covered in fatal bites from as many as 10 dogs a week later.
The four were believed to have been the only victims until the mother of 15-year-old Ana Gabriela Nataret Ramirez told Milenio Television lateTuesday that their daughter had died in hospital after being found covered with apparent dog bites near the Cerro de la Estrella park in the poor southeastern Mexico City district of Iztapalapa on the night of Dec. 16.
In Chinese mythology, it is not a demon but a heavenly dog that bites into the sun.
What was something to behold was the willingness of the media to be borne along by the story, which had all the attributes of dog-bites-man, instead of the reverse.
File this one under man bites dog: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the scourge of liberals and plaintiff lawyers everywhere, delivered a heartfelt decision in favor of the class action in Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P.
The man-bites-dog part of this story is that the judge overseeing the case actually stepped in and sanctioned the law firms for their work.
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