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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 3 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

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Alice Schroeder

Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

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Alice Schroeder

Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

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Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

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Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us

Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Richard Farrell

Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.

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Opening the Black Box of Peer Review

Michèle Lamont | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

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Michèle Lamont

An essay excerpted from How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press) Excellence is the holy grail o...

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Waiting for a Twitch

Jan Herman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style

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Jan Herman

Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.

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Exclusive Excerpt From New James Bond Novel

Vanity Fair | Sebastian Faulks | Posted 06.04.2008 | Entertainment

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To honor Ian Fleming's centenary, one of Britain's top novelists has accepted espionage fiction's ultimate challenge: reviving James Bond. In an excl...

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