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Celebrities welcome Warren Buffett to Twitter
The Oracle of Omaha has taken to Twitter. The notoriously tech-shy billionaire launched his @WarrenBuffett handle Thursday, where he quickly garnered more than 180,000 followers. He is the second-richest person with a verified Twitter account, after...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, The Washington Post, Social Media, Bill Gates
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Warren Buffett: Women are key to America's prosperity
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, urged corporate America in an essay published online Thursday to help develop women's workplace potential, arguing women are the key to America's economic prosperity. The essay, written for the May 20 issue...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Money and Monetary Policy, Warren Buffett, Corporate Officers, Rentals
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If only there were an Academy Award for best stunt hand
In one episode of "Seinfeld," hapless George Costanza was hired as a stunt hand for a movie. Predictably, things went awry and poor George's hand never made a cinematic debut. In the days leading up to the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, my own hand fared...
Tags: Ceremonies, Arts and Culture, The Washington Post, Academy Awards, George Stevens Jr.
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The Morning Fix: 'Breaking Dawn' still has bite. New NFL deals near.
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Washington Post launches Trove, a social-media news aggregation site
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe Washington Post Co. is venturing into the social-media business with Trove, its news aggregation website and mobile apps. Trove, which went live on Wednesday, pulls news from 10,000 sources across the Internet and sorts content by what a user's... -
L.A. Icon Otis Chandler Dies at 78
Times Staff WritersOtis Chandler, whose vision and determination as publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1980 catapulted the paper from mediocrity into the front ranks of American journalism, died today of a degenerative illness called Lewy body disease. He was...Tags: Public Employees, Family, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Staples Center, Bars and Clubs
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Bashing Bush with Greenspan
'While there are significant long-term risks associated with such contractual arrangements, the well-informed actor, motivated by some historically recognized intangibilities -- maximization of regalement, binary association, et al -- finds that those...Tags: Petroleum Industry, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Alan Greenspan, Government
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The Democrats' feel-good guy
Who would have guessed that running on the politics of hope was a smart move after all? From 2000 to 2006, Democrats enjoyed unprecedented party unity. Their combined outrage over the Florida recount, Ralph Nader's role as a spoiler, the Iraq war and...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Nancy Pelosi, International Military Interventions, Ralph Nader
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A Lion of Journalism
Times Staff WritersA Man of Many Passions Transformed The Times Had Otis Chandler never worked a single day, his would have been a memorable life. An Olympic-caliber athlete, a champion weightlifter, an accomplished race car driver, big game hunter, surfer, cyclist,...Tags: Public Employees, Family, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Staples Center, Bars and Clubs
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Shoddy story, brilliant politics
This week's New York Times expose on Sen. John McCain's alleged relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist nearly a decade ago was a shabby piece of journalism. The carefully planned and superbly executed riposte by the top-flight lobbyists with...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Newspapers, Lobbying, Football
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Mitochondrial politics
Here's what to watch for at next week's GOP minority-issues presidential debate at a historically black college in Baltimore: empty chairs. All four top Republicans have "scheduling conflicts." Even Republicans get that this is a problem. "We sound...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Elections, Long Island, Pocahontas
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Jonah Goldberg: The Dems' identity crisis
NATIONAL REVIEW Editor Rich Lowry recently noted an explosion of "precriminations" among Republicans looking to assign blame for GOP losses in advance of election day. Blogger Glenn Reynolds offered a "pre-mortem" along similar lines. And the media have...Tags: Republican Party, Agricultural Research and Technology, Migration, International Military Interventions, Medical Research
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