Guarding Hockey’s Grail

“You can hug the Stanley Cup, and you can kiss the Cup, but the main thing I ask is you never try to lift or to move it.”

Source: Chicago Tribune
Published: Oct 3, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,267 words)

Philip Roth Goes Home Again

There are worse places to be stuck in traffic than midtown Manhattan, worse people to be stuck with than Philip Roth.

Author: Scott Raab
Source: Esquire
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,992 words)

What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers

It is good to be the chief executive of a company that’s about to ship 500 million diapers in a single year. On Marc Lore and Diapers.com

Source: Businessweek
Published: Oct 7, 2010
Length: 13 minutes (3,468 words)

A Force Of Nature

Source: Forbes
Published: Oct 25, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,121 words)

The Man Who Never Was

Desperate to keep his Senate seat, John McCain repudiated his record, his principles, and even his maverick reputation, entrenching himself as the anti-Obama. Which raises the issue of whether the leader so many Americans admired — and so many journalists covered — ever truly existed.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Nov 1, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,657 words)

How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future

Just three years ago, Tesla Motors was in big trouble. The company’s inaugural product—the $109,000 Tesla Roadster—was a money-loser before a single unit had been delivered.

Source: Wired
Published: Sep 27, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,152 words)

Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong

A retort to the writer who claims that social media are not effective tools for activism.

Source: Change Observer
Published: Oct 6, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,386 words)

Marvin and Me

Brandt Miller’s grandmother has had her share of issues, but he never thought she’d mistake him for the family’s black sheep—a convicted child molester serving time with Bernie Madoff.

Published: Oct 6, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,571 words)

The Blundering Herd

Excerpt: For nearly a century of solid profitability, Merrill Lynch was the company that turned millions of Americans into investors. But by the early 2000s, it had developed a raging case of Goldman Sachs envy.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Nov 1, 2010
Length: 27 minutes (6,839 words)

At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture

After CEO Randy Michaels arrived, according to two people at the bar that night, he sat down and said, ‘watch this,’ and offered the waitress $100 to show him her breasts. The group sat dumbfounded.

Author: David Carr
Published: Oct 5, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,081 words)