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"Part of the answer to that question is that our newspapers are being asked to do something they were never designed to do and something they are fundamentally and structurally incapable of doing: they're being asked to provide shareholders with double-digit and ever-increasing profit margins."
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A directory of wonderful gifts.
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It's not the turkey. Well, not just the turkey.
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A note-perfect parody of a very specific sort of holidy special. Feist's song was worth staying up late for.
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"So is [Tor Books] the most successful libertarian propaganda venture in modern history? Publisher and founder Tom Doherty denies any ideological agenda. "First comes the story," he says. His only stated goal is to "do a story in a way that's honest.""
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