The killing, rather than taking up a central position in the story, acts as a mirror of the close-knit Pakistani community, especially for Jugnu's brother and sister-in-law, Shamas and Kaukab.

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It formed the basis of a story published in the Daily Mirror in December 1999 about alleged mistreatment of Brady while he was being force-fed on hunger strike.

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Angelenos wanted to see in Rodney King a story of personal redemption to mirror the civic one they had witnessed.

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On Wednesday the AP printed a story based on a fake press release sent from a site designed to mirror the look and feel of a real corporate newsroom, even down to the logo.

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At the opposite end of the spectrum is a story in today's Daily Mirror that is almost too heart-warming for words - "the world's oldest schoolboy".

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"Outside of the political elite in Britain, this story has had little traction until now, " said Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and an assistant editor of the Sun, a sister paper of News of The World.

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Iacobani explained that when one tells a purposeful story in the room, face to face, they evoke the mirror neuron system of their listener to feel what they are feeling in their tell and thus mirror the same intentions.

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