Scandals

Is there a price-fixing scandal brewing in the oil market?

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Deals

Tumblr, and its cool-kid status, may be worth $1 billion to Yahoo

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JPMorgan

"The current Chairman of J.P. Morgan should be run out of town on a rail"

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New Normal

Greek shipping magnates are not really feeling the whole economic depression thing

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John Cassidy's terrific -- and tough -- remembrance of Margaret Thatcher 

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Roger Ebert is dead at 70

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Hunter Walker: RT @samir: Roger Ebert was an early investor in Google http://t.co/1Qr6wIgB7W
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Ronald Dworkin, legal theorist, dies at 81

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Graham Bowley: MT "@felixsalmon: Ronald Dworkin, RIP http://t.co/KeGY0nNO"
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Koch on the suburbs: "It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life."

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felix salmon: RT @BenDWalsh: Koch on the suburbs: "It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life." http://t.co/lbEOZ7zU
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Former mayor Ed Koch dies, he is "survived by New York City itself"

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Patrick LaForge: RT @ericuman: "Besides his sister... Mr. Koch is survived by New York itself" http://t.co/uoAeBqXR
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The NYT's obit of Richard Ben Cramer

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Oscar Niemeyer, sensual Modernist, dies at 104

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Carol Blue, the wife of the late Christopher Hitchens, on her husband

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Jack Shafer: RT @DavidKenner: Carol Blue, wife of the late Christopher Hitchens, reflects on her husband. http://t.co/cBSnF8jx
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Nora Ephron is dead at 71

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Blog of a Bookslut:

Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her era’s most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally,” died Tuesday night in Manhattan. She was 71.
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Economist Anna Schwartz dead at 96

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Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong: RIP Anna J. Schwartz