Sarah Palin’s Lost Speeches

The Daily Beast has obtained the speeches Sarah Palin planned to deliver on Election Night 2008—win or lose. Read the words the McCain camp didn’t want her to say.

Source: The Daily Beast
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,558 words)

A Crime of Shadows

After months of prowling Internet chat rooms, posing as the mother of two young daughters, Detective Michele Deery thought she had a live one: “parafling,” a married, middle-aged man who claimed he wanted to have sex with her kids. But was he just playing a twisted game of seduction?

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,546 words)

The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet

Al Gore’s views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Oct 31, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,560 words)

Premium Harmony

They’ve been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.—swell—but now they argue. Now they argue quite a lot. It’s really all the same argument. It has circularity. It is, Ray thinks, like a dog track. When they argue, they’re like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don’t see it. You see the rabbit.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 46 minutes (11,609 words)

The Trouble with Harry’s

With the cosmopolitan magic that had launched his father’s fabled Harry’s Bar in Venice a half-century earlier, restaurateur Arrigo Cipriani swooped in to conquer New York café society in 1985, then left his dashing son, Giuseppe, to build a citywide nightlife empire.

Author: Mark Seal
Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,485 words)

Confessions of a ‘Contra’

How the CIA masterminds the Nicaraguan insurgency.

Published: Aug 5, 1985
Length: 22 minutes (5,508 words)

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

Source: McClatchy
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,225 words)

Meet the Man Who Lives on Zero Dollars

In Utah, a modern-day caveman has lived for the better part of a decade on zero dollars a day. People used to think he was crazy

Source: Details
Published: Nov 2, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,171 words)

How it went down

The little accident that toppled history

Source: Washington Post
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,891 words)

‘I Hate Tennis’

In a powerful autobiography, Andre Agassi speaks in surprising and vivid detail about his violent, overbearing father, his antipathy toward the sport that made him famous, and the deep dissatisfaction that led him to use crystal meth

Published: Nov 2, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,177 words)