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Charles Ferguson: How A Bank Self Destructs

Charles Ferguson | Posted 05.21.2012

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One fascinating question about the financial crisis is how and why the CEOs of major banks could have tolerated behavior that destroyed their own companies.

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Too Much Fun: The 'Infinite Jest' Audiobook Has No Endnotes

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012

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On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...

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EXCERPT: How Republican Infighting Damaged The Budget

Posted 03.19.2012

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In a recent interview with Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, House Speaker John Boehner claimed that President Barack Obama "lost courage" last...

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The Little Bride

Anna Solomon | Posted 03.11.2012

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My novel, The Little Bride, begins in a basement in Odessa, where 16-year-old maidservant Minna Losk is being given her "Look" - an examination to see if she's sufficiently "fit" (i.e., "virginal") to become a mail-order bride to America.

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The Novel That Made A Former CIA Director Think The Author Was A Spook

Posted 05.25.2011

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Early this year, former CIA director Porter Goss read the novel "Twice a Spy" in manuscript form and wondered how a Huffington Post columnist knew so ...

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

Alice Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

Alice Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Richard Farrell | Posted 11.17.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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