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Tami-Lu Barry
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Scandal – We’ve Gotta Have It, Part IV: Cheating and the Marketplace
What do disgraced baseball player Roger Clemens and disgraced “memoirist” James Frey have in common? “[The] charge of illicitly boosting their games by employing prohibited substances (anabolic steroids and fictional experiences, respectively). In other words, these are scandals of ambition.
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Scandal – We’ve Gotta Have It, Part IV: Cheating and the Marketplace
What do disgraced baseball player Roger Clemens and disgraced “memoirist” James Frey have in common? “[The] charge of illicitly boosting their games by employing prohibited substances (anabolic steroids and fictional experiences, respectively). In other words, these are scandals of ambition.
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Foodbuzz 24×24: Gulf Relief Shrimp Fra Diavolo and An Interview with Chef Adam Sobel
Fra Diavolo is a tomato-based sauce featuring seafood — most often very large shrimp — and served with pasta. Though light, this sauce is a flavor powerhouse thanks largely to a base of highly-concentrated shrimp shell stock and very fresh ingredients.
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Tripping the Lightbox Fantastic: Toronto Int’l Film Fest’s New Home (ArtsJournal)
“Though inspired by cinephile meccas such as the British Film Institute, [the Lightbox is] unique in the world – an art-house rebuttal to the multiplex that recombines fine art, film and pop culture in a blockbuster hybrid of cinemas, galleries, learning studios and public spaces.”…
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From btpage0630: MOST guys have an issue with it. However, if the guy …
MOST guys have an issue with it. However, if the guy provides enough to care for a family, he shouldn’t be worried about it and just look at it as extra blessings.
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By: FLT
Dubner tells us “Addendum: iTunes is currently having some technical problems. We’ll keep you updated.”
For all I can tell the “technical problem” iTunes had was updating the rental price increasing it from $3.99/4.99 to a whopping $9.99/10.99!
This was my adventure witnessing how iTunes/ Freakonomics team “quickly” adjusted their pricing to extract more of the consumers’ surpl
As a consumer I was quite flummoxed witnessing this price increase, and initially deterred from renting the movie (for a while). I changed my plans for the night and went out with my wife.
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