My father was Greek, my mother French; my grandfather was Danish, my grandmother Russian, and my other grandmother half Spanish

Every year, just before Labor Day, Press Clips reviews the latest magazine leads. It's a subject that never gets old. The point of writing a good lead (a/k/a lede, or first paragraph) for a feature story is to get the reader's attention. It's a difficult craft best learned by reading the masters, not me.
He is a man without a country, a family and a home. For more than a decade, Jozef Imrich has been living in X..., waiting. For what, he doesn't know anymore.
· The Lead-Meisters [VillageVoice ]