So the next time the media sees such a fairy tale story, are they going do any background checks?
The fairy tale story ended on Wednesday when sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing as a hoax the existence of Te'o's girlfriend and suggesting he was complicit.
But there is no mistaking that the 39th rendition of this great sporting event is a tale of 3 story lines.
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Indeed, the report is worth reading as a sea tale rivaling the ancient story of Jonah.
Like any good Silicon Valley success story, the tale of Apple Computer begins in a garage.
Zuckerberg's tale is really just another story about stock options, the coin of the realm in Silicon Valley.
In outline if not in detail, this is Mr Putin's preferred story: a tale of Russian resurgence and clashing national interests.
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They presented the overarching story as a tale of redemption, of the continuity of essential human goodness, whereby individual acts of kindness have unforeseeable repercussions.
There would have been an easier way to make this a rousing tale: to tell the whole story.
But this China trade story is really a tale of two record breakers.
His story is a compelling tale about doing the thing that you love.
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Not every entrepreneurial story is a classic tale of success and benevolence.
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Imagine a sprawling Skylanders-esque game featuring characters and environments from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Toy Story, iconic fairy tale films, and the multitude of properties in their creative stable.
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Owen's tragic tale forms part of a rich story of Welsh boxing in the USA that has featured the likes of Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh, Jimmy Wilde, Frank Moody, Tommy Farr, and, more recently, Joe Calzaghe.
"The Struggle" is as much a tale of will as it is a story of the music.
Many Thais will squirm at what follows, and will prefer the fairy-tale version of the king's story.
The story itself melds the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood with Japanese folklore from the Edo era.
There is a cautionary tale for prospective tax reformers in the story of how what, in principle, should be something simple got to be so complicated.
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But, as James Hamilton contends in an illuminating new biography, Michael Faraday's story is not just the tale of a young man's rise through the scientific ranks.
When I was a kid, I remember my mom read the fairy tale about the ugly duckling, a story about a hideous, huge baby duck that can't fit in with the other ducks.
But the Moulinex story is also a cautionary tale about European business, because its fate was ultimately decided by the control structure that resulted from its merger at the end of last year with Brandt, the Italian offshoot of El.
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They range from a love story starring a Hollywood actor, to a home grown tale of music triumphing over adversity, and from an IRA undercover agent intrigue to a Londonderry-based story of youthful angst.
The story of thalidomide is a sorry tale of corporate greed, institutional inadequacy, unnecessary suffering and cruel irony.
His arrival in Guatemala is the latest scene in a true story that reads like a Hollywood tale.
Yet in reality, the story of America is essentially a tale of these two elements working together for an ever-widening array of groups.
When the door finally opened, Zwerdling heard a remarkable tale, matching in almost every detail the story that simultaneously unfolded to me in Utah.
Hype or no hype, the story of prasugrel should be a cautionary tale for Merck investors.
Mr. Jobs as chief executive in Mr. Isaacson's book is "a success story" and equally "a cautionary tale, " says David A. Garvin, a professor at Harvard Business School.
They emphasise that Enron's story is first and foremost a human tale, with larger-than-life egos and ambitions that will surely be brought to a screen near you once all the trials are over.
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