Zayn Malik Attacked by a Photographer

People have been outraged over a tabloid photographer verbally attacking One Direction’s Zayn Malik by calling him an ethnic slur (“piker boy”) when One Direction drove away in cars after the group arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on November 6, 2012. Apparently, the paparazzo was angry because 19-year-old Malik didn’t stop to pose for […]

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Foroohar: Can Localization Help the Economy?

Tis the season to be selfish. Right after the global financial crisis exploded in 2008, many economists fretted that countries looking to hold on to their share of a shrinking pie would become more self-interested and protectionist, plunging the planet into an even sharper downturn, just as happened in the 1930s after the Great Depression

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Romney’s Cruel Canine Vacation

The reporter intended the anecdote that opened part four of the Boston Globe’s profile of Mitt Romney to illustrate, as the story said, “emotion-free crisis management”: Father deals with minor — but gross — incident during a 1983 family vacation, and saves the day. But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.

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