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Succeeding by the Cowboy Code

July/August 2008 -- Every now and then, Larry Barnes rides his big brown horse, Duke, around town and at nearby tourist destinations...

Sep 7, 2010
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Fred Minnick
4 Mins
What About Bob?

I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...

Aug 25, 2010
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Fred Minnick
5 Mins
Hellacious Success

Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...

Aug 25, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
6 Mins
The Victorian Atlas

January, 2004 -- Inventors are of two sorts. The first says: "Here is a principle. How can it be used?" The second says: "Here is a problem

Aug 12, 2010
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3 Mins
Restoring Glory: A Renaissance-style Art Studio Creates Modern Magic

Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..

Jul 3, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
5 Mins
The Bright Idea: The IQ2 US Debates

Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...

Jul 3, 2010
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5 Mins
The Cyborg Variations

The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down

Jul 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
9 Mins
Galaxy Girl: From Classical to Electronica

Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...

Jul 1, 2010
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3 Mins
Stand Up! (and Pee Like a Man)

What she came up with may give you the giggles. But the plastic horn-shaped device, dubbed a “ SheWee ,” has become a hot commodity for...

Jun 23, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
4 Mins
The Rise of Eliot Spitzer

When Washington Post reporter Brooke Masters set out to write this thorough account of Eliot Spitzer’s career as attorney general of New....

May 21, 2010
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7 Mins
Switzerland Attacked!

Most Americans know peaceful and prosperous Switzerland—America’s “sister republic”—for its beautiful mountains, tangy cheese, decentralized

Apr 4, 2010
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Eddie Hudgins
5 Mins
A Cool Capitalist

It's a typical 3-H Washington, D.C. summer: hazy, hot and humid. And with small variations, the rest of the country...

Mar 12, 2010
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Eddie Hudgins
3 Mins
Rachel Ehrenfeld's Law

In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....

Mar 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
6 Mins
Fashion Forward

If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...

Nov 30, 2009
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Amanda Erickson
6 Mins
Atlas Shrugged in Haight-Ashbury: A Memoir

Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...

Apr 1, 2009
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Molly Sichrest
10 Mins
Profile: The New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson

In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to

Apr 1, 2007
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10 Mins
TNI's Interview with Walter Williams

I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after

Mar 1, 2006
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Sarah Pentz
12 Mins
Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General

Eliot Spitzer became the attorney general of New York in 1999. In addition to carrying out the routine functions of that office, he has used

Apr 1, 2005
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12 Mins
The Case for Frank Quattrone

Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....

Jul 1, 2004
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10 Mins
Joe DiMaggio: Baseball's Aristocrat

On March 8, 1999, Joe DiMaggio died in his 85th year, a baseball legend, but also an American hero who represented the virtues and ideals of

May 1, 1999
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Donald Kagan
6 Mins

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