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Copy Cat
December 20, 2010 02:16 PM
In Praise of Copying | By Marcus Boon | Harvard University Press | 304 pages, $25.95 In the mythology section of a used bookstore I once frequented, there was a fat hardcover called The Golden Bough, by a certain Sir... Continue reading
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Pilgrims or Progress?
July 2, 2009 08:00 AM
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture | By Bill Wasik | Viking Press | $25.95, 208 pages Without a doubt, Bill Wasik’s And Then There’s This is something of a pilgrimage. But readers... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Half a Loaf
June 26, 2009 09:42 AM
In national headlines, USA Today notes that federal stimulus spending slowed last week compared to any weeks in May, and compared also to the average amount the government has spent since the stimulus package was signed in February.... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Stimulating Paperwork
June 25, 2009 10:40 AM
In national headlines, USA Today reports that “less than one-half of 1%” of the money set aside for highway repair and construction has been distributed, according to the federal transportation department. Predictably, Republicans are saying there’s too... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: $8,000 in Produce?
June 23, 2009 10:47 AM
In national headlines, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that confidence in the stimulus package is ebbing, with 52 percent saying the stimulus “has succeeded or will succeed in restoring the economy,” compared with 59 percent two... Continue reading
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Rocky Road
June 18, 2009 02:57 PM
As economists begin assessing the strength of President Obama’s plan to overhaul financial regulation, in particular the expansion of responsibility at the Federal Reserve, news reports about the other big chunk of news therein—the proposed creation of the Consumer Financial... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Flying Projectiles
June 18, 2009 09:05 AM
National headlines focus on President Obama’s proposal to reform financial regulation, which he laid out yesterday afternoon. The plan would give the Federal Reserve broader responsibility to oversee not only big banks, but also other large financial firms, such as... Continue reading
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When Novelists Report
June 12, 2009 03:31 PM
In the name of experimentation...send out novelists to report the news! Well, no, actually, it was in honor of Israel's annual Hebrew Book Week that Haaretz, the Israeli daily, tasked thirty-one of the country's best novelists and poets to cover... Continue reading
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School’s Out
June 12, 2009 03:05 PM
Over the past week, local papers have been reporting on the bureaucratic bottleneck of education stimulus funds at the state level, which is tripping up schools as they try to figure out their budgets for the upcoming year. Individually,... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Slider Shots
June 12, 2009 10:14 AM
Nationally, The New York Times reports that, “with about 2,000 Chrysler and General Motors dealers losing their franchises as the companies retrench,” auto dealers have congregated in Washington to ask lawmakers for help. They’re casting it as an... Continue reading
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Huffy HuffPo
June 11, 2009 03:43 PM
The headline of a post on the Washington City Paper’s City Desk blog reads, “HuffPo Scolds Washingon City Paper for Linking.” Wait, shouldn’t those outlets be switched? Well, no. For April Fool’s Day, City Paper <a... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Money Here, None There (Yet)
June 10, 2009 10:26 AM
The New York Times reports that charitable giving declined last year “by the largest percentage in five decades” (a decrease of 5.7 percent, with inflation taken into account). Unsurprisingly, the study, done by the Giving USA Foundation, found... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Constructive Construction?
June 9, 2009 09:32 AM
In national headlines, President Obama vowed yesterday to accelerate stimulus spending, with the goal, the Los Angeles Times writes, of “creating or saving 600,000 jobs by summer’s end.” As of May 29, it reports, only about 6 percent... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Stimulus Naughts
June 5, 2009 10:13 AM
In national headlines, state revenues are being buffeted by the economic downturn. The information comes from a new report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, which, The New York Times states, “also provided a scorecard for how... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Chapter 11
June 1, 2009 10:51 AM
National headlines today focus on the news that General Motors will declare bankruptcy. The move, the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history, will give the government a 60 percent stake in the company. The Los Angeles Times dubs... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Wait, How Much Did We Spend?
May 29, 2009 10:26 AM
The New York Times reports that, earlier this month, the Obama administration overstated (by “roughly a third”) how much of the $787 billion stimulus package had actually been used. Of the $28.5 billion that was supposed to have... Continue reading
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Watching Sotomayor, Part II
May 29, 2009 09:07 AM
We had our fingers crossed that coverage of Sonia Sotomayor’s SCOTUS nomination would manage to skirt the sort of reaction reporting that gets into a tizzy on the basis of what political demagogues and pundits spout (cue: “Latina woman racist”... Continue reading
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The Economy Today: Weathering the Storm
May 28, 2009 10:19 AM
USA Today leads with a story about how stimulus projects are bypassing the hardest-hit states. Of the nearly $4 billion that federal agencies have awarded so far, little of it has gone to states with the highest unemployment... Continue reading
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Watching Sotomayor
May 26, 2009 04:45 PM
With the announcement that President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace outbound justice David Souter, the press now has the task of covering both the political and judicial aspects of her... Continue reading
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“Notables” at the Chronicle
May 22, 2009 02:08 PM
The San Francisco Chronicle has been asking some of "the local notables that make the Bay Area what it is" to chime in on its Web site, in a new section called City Brights. Some of the... Continue reading

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