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...Today the idea of a mad loner silently avoiding attention seems like a quaint throwback. In August, a VH1 dating-show contestant was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, then committed suicide. And on Oct. 15, America spent an afternoon being literally distracted by a shiny object, watching news choppers chase a silver balloon that we were told carried a presumably terrified 6-year-old boy. When we learned during the coverage that Falcon Heene's family had twice appeared on ABC's Wife Swap, who didn't have the same thought? That if Falcon's parents would...
...serve his scientainment ambitions. The kids seemed to take to their Wife Swap appearance with foulmouthed gusto. But that doesn't make turning their lives into TV a better idea or make exploiting them in a publicity scheme any less odious. If your kid is puking on the Today show while you keep talking to Meredith Vieira, it's a good sign you've screwed...
...banker J.P. Morgan had increased it to 20 times the average. The Securities and Exchange Commission enacted strict executive-compensation-disclosure laws in 1938, but four years after that, the New York Times denounced President Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to cap Americans' pay at $25,000 (about $331,000 today) as a ploy to "level down from the top"; Congress rebuffed...
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...were a little bit better team, a little bit more seasoned than the Dartmouth team today,” Murphy said, “but they played with tremendous effort, obviously, right to the end and in a lot of ways gave us all we could handle...