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Review
Heap of Trouble
March 8, 2012 07:28 PMBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | By Katherine Boo | Random House | 256 pages | $27 Long known as one of America’s most astute chroniclers of domestic poverty, New Yorker writer Katherine... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Context M.I.A.
June 3, 2010 01:53 PMThis week’s New York Times Magazine left lots of readers thinking that controversial recording artist M.I.A. doesn’t always know what she’s talking about when it comes to politics. That happens to be true. What fewer people realize: neither does... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
- Hot air Rises Above on CNBC An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician
The Observatory Science
- Dull news from Doha UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press
- Highway to the danger zone Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
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- NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting People perspective leads to clear explanation of impact of proposed changes
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