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11 November 2012
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Lunch With The FT: Conrad Black

John Gapper | FT | 9 November 2012

"A skilful journalist such as yourself can challenge me effectively – not insuperably, I think, but effectively. But people attempting to bulldoze me on the supposition that I’m a criminal? If I can’t deal with them, I’ll quit" Comments

New York Subway Repairs Border 'On The Edge Of Magic'

Matt Flegenheimer | NYT | 8 November 2012

"Interviews with those who oversaw the recovery suggest a rescue mission both thrilling and frightful. Seven tunnels beneath the East River flooded. Platforms were submerged. Underground equipment decades old was destroyed" Comments

Odessaphiles

Andrew Miller | Intelligent Life | 9 November 2012

At the Odessa Literary Museum. "Embracing the transients and flâneurs, this is, in effect, a museum of Russian literature. And, being Russian, it becomes a museum of censorship and repression, of genius and bravery, blood and lies" Comments

How Larry Gagosian Is Like Goldman Sachs

Felix Salmon | Reuters | 9 November 2012

Notes from the art world. "Gagosian is a broker-dealer, no less than Goldman Sachs is. He matches buyers and sellers, and he has to deal with a large amount of counterparty risk. He’s a shark, but he’s a shark with a smile" Comments

Positive Pregnancy Test Diagnoses Man's Cancer

Maggie Koerth-Baker | Boing Boing | 8 November 2012

Man finds old pregnancy test kit in bathroom cupboard. Just for laughs, he pees on the stick. Surprise! The result comes back positive. Lucky for him, a friend jokes about it on Reddit and receives an unexpected reply Comments

Orlando Cruz: Something Had To Change

Lucas Eberle | Spiegel | 9 November 2012

Interview with first openly gay boxer. "My promoter Tuto Zabala was very cautious. He went to Telemundo, which broadcasts all my fights in the US, and to the boxing organisation WBO. They indicated my coming out was fine by them" Comments

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Cheat Sheet - Don't Sleep With Your Co-Workers

Today: Don't Sleep With Your Co-Workers , BBC Scandal Blows Up , Boehner to House GOP: Wisen Up
Cheat Sheet: Morning

November 11, 2012
BAD IDEA

Don't Sleep With Your Co-WorkersWhether you are male or female, gay or straight, it's always a bad idea to climb into bed with someone who works with you. Just ask David Petraeus. Or Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers ... or Lockheed Martin's Chris Kubasik. The Daily Beast's Daniel Gross on the new rules of the game for CEOs. Plus, Nina Strochlic on the general's jilted wife Holly Petraeus.

MEDIA SHOCK

The director-general of the BBC resigned amid a flurry of allegations around sex-abuse reporting. Peter Jukes on the growing fiasco—and how it could affect The New York Times.

BUT WILL THEY?

How thorough was the electoral trouncing last Tuesday? The muttered support House Speaker John Boehner got from members of his party on a conference call Wednesday might be one of the most accurate barometers. "Most members were just taught a lesson that you're not going to get everything that you want," said Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole of the new House GOP effort to line up behind the speaker. "It was that kind of election." Boehner has long had trouble corralling his party's fractious House members, but doing so will be crucial if they are to present a significant voting bloc.

OUT OF HER LEAGUE

Paula Broadwell got a lot of attention while she was working on her biography of David Petraeus – much of it for her form-fitting clothes and slim resume. "She was relentlessly pro-Petraeus," a policy expert who met Broadwell in Afghanistan said. "She wasn't a reporter. She struck me as an acolyte." Officers who worked with the general in Afghanistan said that his official biographer – revealed to be the other woman in a career-ending extramarital affair – also caught their eye when she posted sensitive military information on her Facebook page. But others in the general's circle said they were struck by Broadwell's work ethic and idealism. The FBI reportedly learned of the affair after uncovering "harassing" emails sent from Broadwell to a woman who both she and Petraeus knew.

'WAR ZONE'

Two people were reported dead in an explosion and blaze that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood Saturday. The force of the explosion shattered windows in houses as far as a block away. "It looks like a war zone here right now," fire-department spokeswoman Lt. Bonnie Hensley said of the inferno that erupted after two neighborhood homes exploded around 11 p.m. local time. Rescue workers combed the area repeatedly and took displaced residents to a shelter at a nearby school.


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