julescrittenden.com - 11/20/2008
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$3 billion subway planned for Baghdad. Either the war's over, or some bright Iraqi bureaucrat familiar with the Big Dig saw how $3 billion can turn into $14 billion worth of cost overruns and good jobs at good wages.
In a city where raw waste often spills from an antique sewer ...
julescrittenden.com - 11/21/2008
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When your name is Jules, things happen. You
get mail addressed to "Ms. Jules Crittenden." Or, when...
you're moonlighting in an alarm call center in a bad part of a small New England milltown because your newspaper in that town doesn't pay enough, and a ...
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Man Up
julescrittenden.com - 11/15/2008
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Boston City Hall ... the Ugliest Building in
the World. Boston Herald: Bostonians didn’t need VirtualTourist.com and...
City Hall’s top billing on the World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments list to figure that out. Residents have known it ...
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We’re No 1!
news.medill.northwestern.edu - 11/21/2008
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Only one publicly-traded newspaper company is in a
safe financial situation, according to a statistic designed to...
measure a company’s chance of failure. Last week at the American Press Institute’s closed-door summit of 50 of the top newspaper ...
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Indicator confirms crisis in newspaper industry
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... . Shhhh. No one tell Helen Thomas, you'll just upset her. • Jules Crittenden : War's Over Indicator No. 52 : $3 billion subway planned for Baghdad. • Elder of Ziyon : ...
"The Audacity of Victory"
Ace of Spades HQ —
... But we hadn't quite won, at that point, so couldn't announce a precipitous withdrawal. But now? Bush, Petraeus, and all the men and women serving in Iraq (including the troops from Poland, Australia, etc., and Iraqis themselves) may just have won the war for real and for ever such that it really can't be lost at this point, even if Barack Obama tries his level best. (Short of actually arming the Iranian special forces troops murdering Americans, I mean.) Iraq's building a 3 billion dollar ...
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