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July 2, 2012 01:44 PM
Anderson Cooper (finally) exits the closet [updated]
The CNN anchor announces he's gay in a published email to Andrew Sullivan
Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation has been something of an open secret for some time. But Monday morning, he finally came out publicly. The news broke shortly after 11 a.m., when Cooper’s old friend Andrew Sullivan, who has been out for decades, posted an email from Cooper on his blog at The Daily Beast. In the email, Cooper declares: The fact...
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October 27, 2011 06:28 PM
Cataloging the Banks’ Crimes and Misdeeds
This excellent Daily Beast piece by Gary Rivlin catalogs the major crimes of the four biggest U.S. banks plus Goldman Sachs, a feat so daunting that the story runs more than 4,000 words on five pages—and there's not much filler here. It's a portrait of a rogue industry, one that's enriched itself (actually, further enriched. It was already wealthy) at...
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November 16, 2010 12:29 PM
Whither NewsBeast?
What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?
News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday. Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that, according to the new company’s CEO, Stephen Colvin, Newsweek.com as a separate web domain would cease to exist, its content to be folded into the Beast site. Newsweek.com staffers took to...
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