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05 JAN 09
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Grand Theft HuffPo pt. 2: Chicago Reader Blogs: Chicagoland SAVE
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"If the future of journalism--which everyone keeps telling me the Huffington Post represents--is a bunch of search-engine optimization scams, we have bigger problems than Sam Zell's bad investment strategies. Hey, oracles of the future of media, you want content?"TAGS
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Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party - WSJ.com SAVE
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"He says he had planned to write about how financial developments during Mr. Greenspan's 18-year tenure made the world safer. But the more he looked, the less he believed that. In the end, with Mr. Greenspan watching from the audience, he argued that disaster might loom."TAGS
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Feeling tense? Relax: it's the most stressful day of the year SAVE
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"My personal bugbear is the Typhoid Mary who insists on coming in despite the fact that they are crawling with more germs than a petri dish at Porton Down." -- 'Oh, look at me people, I'm so ill and I'm still working, look at my sacrifice, I feel terrible but work is so important I have to come in sick' (*cough cough*, phlegm in my face) -- <del>They should be incinerated on sight. On. Sight.</del>TAGS
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04 JAN 09
Craig Murray - Gordon Brown Is a Murderous Two Faced Cunt SAVE
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context: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/12/harold_pinter.htmlTAGS
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03 JAN 09
Flower of the Fence - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com SAVE
It's going to be a movie... from The Times: "The film's producer plans to go ahead. Harris Salomon, of Atlantic Overseas Pictures, said he had always planned a “loose and fictionalised adaptation”"TAGS
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A False Story: Six Questions for Ken Waltzer SAVE
"In my previous post, I discussed Herman Rosenblat’s memoir An Angel at the Fence, which was revealed over the weekend as a deception. The discovery and exposure of that deceit comes thanks to the work of Ken Waltzer, a professor and director of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. Today, a conversation with Waltzer about Rosenblat’s memoir, memoir in general, and Waltzer’s book-in-progress about the children of Buchenwald."TAGS