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Censoring scuttlebutt: the perils of blocking gossipy bloggers 

Seeking to prevent sensitive, potentially embarrassing or financially damaging information from reaching tattletale blogs, American corporations...

A billion here, a billion there: you need 10-figure losses to play in the big leagues. 

Remember when a billion dollars still seemed like a lot of money? Neither does anybody else. Consider: A newspaper revered for its ability to...

Crocodile tears fall on deaf ears 

Nothing my alcoholic, belt-wielding father ever did to me as a child enraged me as much as the day he pulled me aside, said how sorry he was for...

Getting real: need to make an appearance in coach? Send a doppelganger 

Not long ago, a photograph of Liz Claiborne CEO William McComb jammed into a seat in coach class appeared in the The Wall Street Journal. The...

The invisible black hand: take a hard look at the fed's soft bailout logic 

The decision by the federal government to bail out the Mafia but allow the Cosa Nostra to go under has left investors bewildered and enraged. Ever...

The past is prologue: stock option scoundrels find a haven on foreign shores 

Two years ago, Jacob Alexander, one-time chief executive of Comverse Technology, fled to Namibia rather than face charges that he conspired to...

This is just not happening: bring on the futurists, curmudgeons and whack-jobs 

Newspaper readers instinctively turn to the same section every morning. For many it is the sports, for some the financial section, some actually...

Trouble brewing: a fortune cookie sales pitch portends directional drift 

Businesses sometimes lose their way. This fact was driven home to me recently when I dined at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. The food was...

The wealth of nations: sometimes it's best to stick with what you know 

Anyone lucky enough to see the recent public television broadcast of the New York Philharmonic's historic concert in Pyongyang can see why there...

Wise men and Garth Brooks 

By JOE QUEENAN

ONLY THOSE WHO risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go," was the daily thought printed at the...