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Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was 'The Chevy Chase Show'

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get…
SOURCE:Splitsider
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2384 words)
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Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers

Tribune’s newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, have caught the interest of a number of suitors. Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of…
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (733 words)

Marlins Find Themselves Home Alone

Attendance was announced at 20,037 for Saturday’s game in Miami between the Marlins and the Phillies, but this fan had his choice of seats and little competition for a souvenir baseball had one been…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (815 words)

I Miss My Yankees: Jay-Z, Master P, and the History of Rap Sports Agencies

Getty ImagesAt 10:58 ET, ESPN reporter Darren Rovell's Twitter account tweeted a tweet. Wow. Three minutes later: In the att
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2898 words)

Gold, Long a Secure Investment, Loses Its Luster

Weighing gold nuggets in the Philippines. Below the streets of Lower Manhattan, in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the world’s largest trove of gold — half a million bars — has…
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (810 words)

Why good people stand by and let bad things happen

You may have already seen the YouTube video of Michael Nodianos – if you have the stomach for it.In what looks like a basement rec room, the teenager – his cheeks red with alcohol, and…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (798 words)
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South Florida takes center stage in medical marijuana push

Just a year ago, you'd be high to think medical marijuana had any hope of ever passing muster with Florida's conservative Legislature.But a colorful cadre of pot proponents from South Florida are…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (672 words)

Are Memphis Prosecutors Trying to Send an Innocent Man Back to Death Row?

On Christmas night, 1997, Crumpy’s Comedy Club in North Memphis hosted a party sponsored by a local barbershop, Magic Clippers. The club had opened that spring, attracting popular black…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (925 words)

Why Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia Haven't Killed Off Real Estate Brokers

Over the last decade, the Internet has seeped into that bedrock of the U.S. economy: the housing market. A group of growing and mostly profitable websites have sprung up to help guide consumers…
AUTHOR:Brad Stone
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2935 words)
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