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Greenwich Estate Has Highest Asking Price In The Country
The Hartford CourantGreenwich is known for its mammoth mansions, but now the tony Fairfield County enclave can claim another privilege of its affluence: the highest listing price of any home in the country. The owners of Copper Beech Farm are asking a whopping, $190 million...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Long Island Sound, Miami Beach, Greenwich, Marketing
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Pac-12's Larry Scott is highest-paid commissioner
Larry Scott of the Pac-12 Conference appears to be the highest-paid sitting college commissioner ever, the Wall Street Journal reported. Scott earned more than $3 million in 2011-12, according to tax documents released by the conference Sunday. Scott,...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Big Ten Conference, ESPN (tv network), Charlotte Bobcats, College Sports
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Hey! I made 'Best of the Web today!'
Change of SubjectOn the Bulworth thread, a commenter asks if I'll be responding to James Taranto's blog item at the Wall Street Journal that mentions me. A bit. Here's the relevant passage and a few subsequent passages with my comments. There's been...... -
A 'Meet the Press' moment
Change of SubjectFrom the transcript: NBC'S MEET THE PRESS" HOST DAVID GREGORY: Peggy Noonan, you wrote something (in your Wall Street Journal column) this week that really struck me in your column on Friday. And I want to put it up on...... -
White House officials knew of IRS audit findings weeks in advance
WASHINGTON — Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS would probably end up showing that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, the White House spokesman conceded Monday, contrary to...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Jay Carney, Taxation, U.S. Senate
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, Book, Amazon Kindle, Stephen King
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'Star Trek Into Darkness' finishes first. Yahoo buys Tumblr.
After the coffee. Before going through two weeks' worth of mail. The Skinny: Well, I didn't win the Powerball lottery, which means I'll be heading back to the office today after a long trip to New York. Ask me around Thursday if it's good to be home....
Tags: Lotteries, Amazon.com Inc., The New York Times, Mary McNamara, Ethan Coen
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Pac-12's Larry Scott is college's highest paid commissioner
Orlando SentinelPac-12 commissioner Larry Scott made more than $3 million last season according to financial documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. His compensation makes him the highest paid college commissioner. According to the report, Scott was paid a...Tags: Utah Utes, Big Ten Conference, Colorado Buffaloes, College Football, College Sports
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Idiots on the loose
Has the administration gone completely off the rails in Washington? I write here of the IRS taking aim for "extra scrutiny" of tax-exempt status requests from Tea Party and Patriot groups and the outrageous Justice Department subpoena of telephone...Tags: FBI, News Media, Freedom of the Press, Politics, Journalism
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Yahoo's board is said to OK buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1-billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. A deal could be announced as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. It's the biggest -- and riskiest -- deal yet for...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Social Media, Media Industry, Business Enterprises, Google Inc.
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'Star Trek Into Darkness' a worthy enterprise, critics say
It wouldn't be quite accurate to say that J.J. Abrams' 2009 "Star Trek" reboot boldly went where no man had gone before. After all, such familiar faces such as Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Uhura were along for the ride (though played by new actors), as was...Tags: Movies, The New York Times, Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Wars (movie), Entertainment
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Khaled Hosseini on "And the Mountains Echoed"
Khaled Hosseini stormed the best-seller lists with his debut novel, “The Kite Runner,” in 2003, following it up with the even more popular “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in 2007. Both set in the author's native country of Afghanistan,...
Tags: General Practitioners, Fiction, Ethan Canin, Polio, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud
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