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Justice Nixes New Malcolm X Murder Probe
The best-selling and controversial biography of Malcolm X by the late Manning Marable renewed long-standing questions about whether the right men were convicted of the murder of the civil rights leader in 1965. But those who hoped for a new probe were sorely disappointed Saturday when a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department said that…
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Norwegian Terrorist Bombs Offices, Kills 91
It’s telling about our time that the description of the Norwegian terror suspect made a point of identifying him as blond and blue-eyed. A bombing in downtown Oslo and the massacre of at least 91 people, including children attending a summer camp immediately set off speculation about Middle East terrorists. But the arrest of a…
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A Unified Theory of Murdoch
Corporations, like all human organizations, develop distinct cultures. A set of shared values evolves that controls what a company is willing to do in the pursuit of profit — and most important, what it is not. Most often, those values are driven by senior management. To succeed in that environment, employees must conform to the…
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DSK Affair: Who's the Victim Now?
It took less than 24 hours for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to go from suspected sexual predator to victim. Revelations by the Manhattan district attorney suggested that his alleged victim had told so many lies that she was no longer a credible witness. In France, pundits are already speculating that DSK’s political career may revive.…
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Case Against Former IMF Chief Falling Apart?
Update The sexual-assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took a dramatic turn Friday as his accuser’s credibility became a central issue. The judge freed Strauss-Kahn from house arrest and canceled his bail after prosecutors turned a letter over to the defense outlining questions about the woman’s version of what happened in the hotel on May…
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Where Are the Black Internet Entrepreneurs?
Silicon Valley is one of the most diverse places on the planet — except for the glaring absence of blacks and Hispanics. African Americans are just not visible in this hotbed of technology innovation. Black Web 2.0’s Angela Benton is trying to do something about it, reports the Washington Post’s Vivek Wadhwa. According to the…
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The Widening Gap Between Bosses and Workers
Forty years ago, the CEO of a dairy company earned $1 million a year, had a nice house, an office above the dairy and a pretty good lifestyle. Today the CEO of the same company today makes $10 million, has a 64-acre spread in Colorado, a nine-story corporate headquarters and a company jet to take…
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Honeymoon Over for Haiti's New President?
Even the skeptics had hopes when the former entertainer known as “Sweet Micky” was sworn in as Haiti’s president. Michel Martelly presented himself as an outsider and won by a landslide over law professor and former first lady Mirlande Manigat. But reports from the island nation indicate that politics as usual may be back at…
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The World's 10 Most Dangerous Cities
The website Urban Titan has made a list of the most dangerous cities in the world, and some of them — sites of armed conflict — will come as no surprise: Baghdad; Karachi, Pakistan; and Mogadishu, Somalia, for example. Others to make this disreputable roll include Capetown, South Africa (isn’t Johannesburg what everyone talks about?);…
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Yemen's Saleh Flees to Saudi Arabia
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the embattled president of Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, has turned power over to his deputy and left for Saudi Arabia. Officially, Saleh is seeking treatment for injuries he suffered from a rocket attack on his palace. But it is widely assumed that Saleh’s 33 years in power are…
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