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- Twelve years later, after Mary Bell had served her time in prison for two counts of manslaughter, the Daily Star handled the young woman's pending release with equal sensitivity .
- As the book hits stores, the world's most famous Kabbalah practitioner is fending off rumors of a pending split from husband Guy Ritchie and of an alleged affair with New York .
- A media frenzy around a pending correction occurred that very same week, which demonstrates just how suggestible we are, as well as how short our attention spans can be.