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1. February 3, 2012 12:29 AM

   Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits

   By Ryan Chittum

   Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO values. Two of his underlings pleaded guilty and say Serageldin orchestrated the scheme. The NYT: The government’s case against the former Credit Suisse traders depicts a brazen scheme to artificially increase the price of bonds on their books to create...

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2. January 12, 2012 01:23 PM

   Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail

   Voters skew female; reporters still do not

   By Meryl Gordon

   MANCHESTER, NH — The sea-green and white concrete gymnasium at Saint Anselm College was transformed this past Saturday night into a temporary state-of-the-art filing center for the GOP presidential debate, with big screen TVs, Wi-Fi, and nearly 700 journalists seated at black tablecloth-covered plastic tables, tapping away at keyboards. Yet there was a strangely old-fashioned Front Page element to this...

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3. August 3, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Olympics’s women coverage

   It should be about female athletes' achievements, but it's often more focused on their chromosomes

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Gender issues were threaded throughout the coverage of the Olympic games this week, beginning with the opening ceremonies, which showcased that, for the first time, all of the 204 delegations included a female athlete. London 2012 has been dubbed “The Year of the Woman,” noted...

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