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Hooking the Big Ones
March 18, 2010 12:43 PMFly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys | By Matt Labash | Simon & Schuster | 336 pages, $25.99 Matt Labash has a nose for sniffing out the strange and... Continue reading
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California Dreaming
September 24, 2009 12:00 PMGolden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance | By Kevin Starr | Oxford University Press | 576 pages, $34.95 All is not well in California. As has been widely noted, our state is broke--and perpetually on fire. Its legendary... Continue reading
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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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- Broadcasters sue to keep political ad buy data offline
- The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
- A game of telephone fools the Times
- What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
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