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Thursday, April 07, 2011

It’s good to be Snooki (I guess….)

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Is it just my imagination, or is the fifteen minutes of fame that Andy Warhol forecast for us all getting longer and longer? Or is it that...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Wake me when the coffee’s perking. (And don’t forget the donuts.)

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I grew up hearing my grandmother talk about the great Irish wakes she’d attended as a girl. These weren’t quite the brawling booze-ups sung ...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Layoffs have rippled through Ben and Jerry’s

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There are plenty of days when all I want to do is pick up a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Ice Cream, stick a spoon in it, and cal...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Roy Santillan: St. Francis House’s Marathon Man

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It has been a long and fierce winter, one with scant let up: no extended January thaw, few “promise of spring” days. But winter is no offi...
Friday, April 01, 2011

The Fiesta’s Over for John Junker

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Don’t know how I missed all this hoopla when the news started to break a couple of months back, but – thankfully – I tripped upon Jesse Sing...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Let the 9/11 Anniversary Exploitation Begin

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It’s hard to believe that we’re fast approaching the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. And it’s hard to believe that we won’t...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Touched By Angels touched by the Mass. AG

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Touched By Angels (TBA), a Cape Cod outfit that takes the profit out of the word non-profit, may have looked like an angel.But then the Mass...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Law Suit’s Getting Started (at Mohegan Sun)*

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Last week’s news on the judicial front included a nice bit about a fellow who is poaching on a $1.2M gambling debt to Connecticut casino Moh...
Monday, March 28, 2011

The Widow’s Mite (James Konaxis learns the hard hard way that churn can burn.)

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A Massachusetts broker has been kicked out of the securities biz for managing to rack up over half a million in commissions. James Konaxis m...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: one hundred years on

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The victims were, for the most part, young women – Italian and Jew...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride–and then some

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God knows I’ve tried, but it’s been pretty darned hard to find any vaguely amusing or mildly quirky news coming out of Japan these days. Jap...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Gender Manager Wanted. (Who said that no one’s hiring?)

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I love to look through the Executive Focus (want ads) in the front of The Economist . Mostly they make me wistful that my career wasn’t inte...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Adieu, Dalton. Brearley, bye-bye. Tough to think you’re life is ruined at the age of four.

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Ciao, Chapin. So long, Spence. A Manhattan mother is suing her daughter’s former pre-school because, in her view, the school turned out to...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Places to stay the hell out of. Just added Sweetwater TX to the list

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If you’ve ever wondered where the snakes went when St. Patrick drove them out of Ireland, your wonder years are over. While some of them s...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Got a light? Zippo Lighters expands its mission

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Like most of the men of his (debatable greatest) generation, my father was a smoker. He smoked unfiltered Luckies, lightened up with Marlbor...