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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 4.1
Exercise 4.2
Exercise 4.3
Exercise 4.4
Exercise 4.5
Exercise 4.6
Exercise 4.7
Exercise 4.8
Exercise 4.9
Exercise 4.10
Exercise 4.11
Exercise 4.12
Exercise 4.13
Exercise 4.14
Exercise 4.15
Exercise 4.16
Exercise 4.17
Exercise 4.18
Exercise 4.19
Exercise 4.20
Exercise 4.21
Exercise 4.22
Exercise 4.23
Exercise 4.24
Exercise 4.25
Exercise 4.26

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Exercise 4.23

Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.

The following lead, which is from a story in the Chicago Tribune, contains 50 words. Pare it to an acceptable length.
     U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Michael Narcum, of Woodstock, from receiving mail on behalf of an allegedly bogus company called International Success Development/Commission of Mailers of North America, through which he is suspected of bilking hundreds of people out of more than $80,000.