News is like a soap bubble. It shimmers for a moment in the sun, then bursts with a POP, leaving no trace behind.
The sagas of the "Pittsburgh Drug Supply Crisis" and "Energy Magnates Forcing the White House's Hand" had once dominated headlines across America. But they quickly vanished from the public eye after the major pharmaceutical giants resumed shipments to Pittsburgh and the White House, however reluctantly, acquiesced to the new status quo.
The media is always bloodthirsty. Once the bloodstains are wiped clean, they immediately turn their cameras to find the next bleeding wound.
The front pages were now occupied by some Hollywood star's divorce and a hurricane in Florida.
The intense, confrontational tension had subsided.
But for the legal staff in the Government of Pennsylvania's buildings, the war was just beginning.
In the State Department of Justice offices in Harrisburg, the lights now burned all night long.
