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WSJ TV: The VP Shortlist Eliza Gray on the pros and cons of potential vice presidential candidates.
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Two Books, Both Worth the Time. →
cjchivers: The holidays must be over, as a short while ago I was sitting at an airport gate in the Middle East again, waiting for the next flight. And as ever, even as the next assignment started to feel its traction, I was trying to close out old work — in this case, coverage of one of 2011’s interesting…
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December 2011
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The Collector →
On a warm Saturday in early July, an employee at the Maryland Historical Society placed a call to the police. He had noticed two visitors behaving strangely—a young, tall, handsome man with high cheekbones and full lips and a much older, heavier man, with dark, lank hair and a patchy, graying beard. The older man had called in advance to give the librarians a list of boxes of documents he...
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The King of All Vegas Real Estate Scams →
Before the market crashed and home prices tumbled, before federal investigators showed up and hauled away the community records, before her property managers pled guilty for conspiring to rig neighborhood elections, and before her real estate lawyer allegedly tried to commit suicide by overdosing on drugs and setting fire to her home, Wanda Murray thought that buying a condominium in Las Vegas...
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November 2011
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Joe Paterno, Penn State football, and rape of all... →
The Jerry Sandusky indictment is SO horrible, with details about the rape of children, that I kind of think it trips a circuit breaker in our heads—obscuring the fact that Penn State football has a deep familiarity with rape of all kinds. How inured was Joe Paterno? I wrote this for the Daily Beast: Four years after Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was told that his longtime defensive...
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julioclock: pablog: Not shown: Jerry Stiller, who is just as fantastic as you’d imagine him to be. I forget what he told Nick/Juli, but a sample soliloquy, as he went around the table asking everyone’s names (shortly after saying he wouldn’t remember any of them): “‘Pablo’! Wonderful! I’m so glad you didn’t change it to Pedro, or Peter!” Also not pictured: signed copy of Chris Matthews’s...
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Hurricane poll of New Yorkers on Gchat: What are...
“I’m going to get like a pound of roast pork from Chinatown, and a bunch of cherries, and some bloody mary mix” “[Boyfriend] made us hoard this morning. I was more concerned about my access to Diet Coke than water. I told him to steal snacks from IAC” “i have all my magazines on me  i might buy some pasta at the italian place in chelsea market and some...
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funnyordie: Behind the Scenes of Michele Bachmann’s Newsweek Cover Take a look at the behind-the-scenes footage of Michele Bachmann’s Newsweek cover shoot. Her husband Marcus joined her to help get her look just right.
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July 2011
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Wrote about the WSJ newsroom wrestling with the... →
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plus sidebar by a few awesome winners, including: →
JOEY CHESTNUT  Won: five straight Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests The first thing I see when I get up in the morning is what I have written on my mirror: “Winning is the only option.” Before a lot of contests, I’m not the nicest person; I’ll tell the other competitors that I already called my mom and told her I won. It’s an awesome feeling, knowing that no matter how hard they try, the other...
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