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Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros

Rajat Gupta, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history. Late one Friday morning, Rajat Gupta was rushing through security at
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (758 words)

What It's Like When A Label Won't Release Your Album

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed In 2004, 13-year-old Joanna Levesque became the youngest solo artist ever to have a number one single on the Billboard charts. Levesque, who recorded as JoJo, had been…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3969 words)
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Not That Kind of Girl

Liz Meriwether is trying to figure out the best way to make a funeral funny. The 31-year-old showrunner of Fox’s “New Girl” is in deep writing mode, clad in leggings and an…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3732 words)

The Office Shuts Off the Lights

It may not be pretty, but it's somehow fitting that The Office should end this way: humbled, overlooked, and, increasingly, unloved. No one was paying much attention when the series debuted in 2005…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2141 words)
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In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves

The rush to embrace and console every gay man who comes out is infantilizing and condescending—but it's a script written and promoted by GLAAD and reinforced by a sanctimonious establishment…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3449 words)

AP IMPACT: Wind Farms Get Pass On Eagle Deaths : NPR

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine…
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2702 words)

Howard: Jimmy Connors won't go quietly

NEW YORK -- He was tennis's most scatalogical champ and King of the Five-Set Comeback. He's known for boasting he was loved for it all because "I spilled my blood and guts out there." And there's no…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3446 words)

Slaves to the algorithm

In central London this spring, eight of the world’s greatest minds performed on a dimly lit stage in a wood-panelled theatre. An audience of hundreds watched in hushed reverence. This was the…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3781 words)

Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. “Lanier is often described as…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5152 words)
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