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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.
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Trustees Begin to Parcel Leona Helmsley’s Estate »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
The first $136 million from the hotelier Leona Helmsley’s disputed multibillion-dollar estate has been distributed, trustees announced on Tuesday, but the bulk went to ...
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Can Texas Go It Alone? »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Deep in the heart of Texas, there seems to be a lurking urge to--well, go it alone. Residents of the Lone Star State have always ...
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Invasion of the Nerds: Google, AT&T and Twitter executives visit Iraq »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Executives from Google Inc, AT&T, Twitter and other high tech companies are visiting Iraq this week to explore how technology may help fight corruption ...
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Cyber Spies Steal Fighter Jet Data »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
A series of online spy attacks breached a $300 billion Pentagon fighter jet program and the Air Force's air traffic control system in recent ...
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History of Violence: Columbine, Ten Years Later »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Ten years ago today, two teenagers initiated a bloodbath at their local high school--and made the word Columbine synonymous with arbitrary, agonizing violence. At the ...
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Propeller Week in Review: April 16, 2009 »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
This week, the Propeller community watched with bated breath as Captain Richard Phillips was rescued from the clutches of his Somali captors. Everybody cheered the ...
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CJR: The Man with Van »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
In early March, in a mountainous, quake-prone patch of central Italy, the readings on Gioacchino Giuliani’s patented radon detector suddenly spiked. He concluded the ...
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Money for Nothing: Ponzi Schemes Proliferate on YouTube »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Now that financier and fantasist Bernard Madoff has made Ponzi scheme into an everyday phrase, you would think that the American public would be warier ...
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Ponzi schemes spread on YouTube »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Here come the mini-Madoffs.
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The Better Business Bureau warned today about a proliferation of what appear to be Ponzi schemes on YouTube. The agency says ...Read (57) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at latimesblogs.latimes.com
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Harvard economist: Legalize all drugs to eliminate violence »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron believes that legalizing all drugs, not just marijuana, is the only way to eliminate drug-related violence.
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Miron argued during an appearance ...Read (52) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at rawstory.com
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Is Amazon Treating Gay Authors as Second-Class Citizens? »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As reported earlier, Amazon.com seems to be deliberately excluding gay authors from its sales rankings and product searches. Is that the case? Or has ...
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Amazon Says Glitch to Blame for "New" Adult Policy »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A groundswell of outrage, concern and confusion sprang up over the weekend, largely via Twitter, in response to what authors and others believed was a ...
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NYC church tweeting the Passion of Christ »
Posted by: 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Experience the Passion of Christ — in 140-character bursts.
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In a marriage of Christian tradition and digital technology, Wall Street's Trinity Church is using the ...Read (141) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at google.com
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Propeller Week In Review: April 9, 2009 »
Posted by: 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A story about a controversial, pro-rape law in Afghanistan inspired this week's lengthiest (and liveliest) conversation at Propeller. But there were also heated exchanges ...
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Texas judge allows collection of dead son's sperm »
Posted by: 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so she can have the option ...
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