In-class assignment: Identify two special leads

Narrative lead example:

Tony Miller spends his days in a towel-draped chair, heavily medicated and sweating profusely as prostate cancer spreads through his body. Over and over again, he changes out of drenched T-shirts and shorts, puts them on a hanger to dry and then goes back to his chair to sweat some more.

After a lifetime of international travel as a journalist, the 65-year-old Miller has made this one-room apartment in Portland his final home.

Miller was drawn here by an only-in-Oregon-law that enables terminally ill patients to obtain lethal prescriptions once their life expectancy falls below six months.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008259886_oregonlaw13m0.html

Quote lead example:

Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"I used to take the bus from here to Burbank to go to work," he recalled. "When the bus was late, I would walk up and down and throw my cigarettes down. Now I have the honor of having this done to my star."

Guests at the ceremony included Robbins' longtime partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as relatively diminutive actor Jack Black, who said he has known the tall, lanky Robbins for 25 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/10/13/tim.robbins.walk.fame.ap/index.html