Monthly Archives: June 2006

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People

How To Lose Friends and Alienatte People

Dear Mr. Young, I too was a New York loser-journalist guiltily-smitten with celebrity, though I worked at the Village Voice, and my celebrities were not as Brad Pittish as yours. The Voice is not Vanity Fair, but the high-school cliques … Continue reading

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics

To:  Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors, Freakonomics. Dear Steven and Stephen, Having read Malcolm Gladwell’s rave, having understood and loved the book’s premise—that hidden statistics we don’t want to look at tell the real story—we expected a … Continue reading

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