Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Interesting Stories

Nepal
Nepali blogging,Version 2.0
Samrat Upadhyay A study in contrasts

Education: Good on Paper
History of Terai in Nepal

Personality: Robin Sharma (interview)

Pictures
Vanity Fair Photos

All the Prime Minister’s (Berlusconi) Women

Business & Finance
Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It
Finance: Henry Paulson’s Longest Night
Finance: The End (of an era)
Finance: The Man Who Crashed the World
Finance: Wall Street on the Tundra
Lawsuit: How Ronald Perelman met his match
Real Estate: The Billyburg Bust

Companies
Blackwater: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy
Conde Nast: Si Newhouse’s Dream Fact
Goldman Sachs: Tenacious G (NY Mag)
Goldman Sachs: The Bank Job (Vanity Fair)
NYT: The Inheritance

Crime
Hank Morris: Follow the Pension Money
Madoff: The Madoff Chronicles I
Madoff: The Madoff Chronicles II
Madoff: The Madoff Chronicles III
Madoff: Ruth’s World
Marc Dreier: 60 Minutes (TV)
Marc Dreier: The Impersonator
Marc Dreier: Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny
Marcus Schrenker: Fake Death
Story: NYU Student Hedge Fund Scandal
Story: Screwing Big Telecoms
Story: Breeder's Cup Scandal (Long)
Story: Breeder's Cup Scandal (Short)

Culture & Entertainment
The Godfather Wars
How the West Was Saved
Hollywood Brat Pack
Lehman’s Desperate Housewives
Marrying a Cousing (NYT)
The Red Carpet Campaign
The Sex Diaries

Education
New Jersey College Is Beset by Accusations
Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard

NYC
Splendor in the Grit

Obituaries
Alexander Haig

Personalities
Annie Leibovitz: How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz?
Charlie Rose: Why business loves Charlie Rose
Gisele Bundchen: And God Created Gisele
Halsey Minor: The Baddest Boy in Silicon Valley
Jared Kushner: The Legacy
Jeffrey Sachs: International Man of Misery
John Paulson: The Man Who Made Too Much
Julia Child: Our Lady of the Kitchen
Nancy Pelosi: Why Is Nancy Pelosi Always Smiling?
Nouriel Roubini: The Prime of Mr. Nouriel Roubini
Rupert Murdoch: Murdoch’s Private Game
Ruth Madoff: Poor Ruth
Sheena Wright: To Believe Despite the Odds
Steve Rattner: Exit the Czar
Sumner Redstone: Sumner's Discontent

Politics
All Broads Lead to Rome
The Fall of John Edwards
It Came from Wasilla
North Korea’s Dollar Store
Politico’s Washington Coup

WSJ: Editor's Pick
Can Dirt Do a Little Good?
A Room With a View, and a Price