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The Search for a Happy Ending
February 18, 2009 01:22 PMTry to Tell the Story By David Thomson | Knopf | $23.95 In Try to Tell the Story, film critic and scholar David Thomson offers proof that you needn’t be raised by your mother’s psychiatrist or survive a gruesome (if... Continue reading
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Barack in the Ballroom
January 22, 2009 12:12 PMWatching coverage of the inaugural balls Tuesday night was at times like eavesdropping on a table of gushing bridesmaids at a wedding. “I was struck when they did something that I remember from high school, which is the two arms... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
- The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
The Observatory Science
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
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- What’s the swingiest state of them all? By any measure, Colorado is at the center of the action in 2012
- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
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