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May 28, 2012

NY TIMES News, May 28, 2012

Ex-NY Times CEO clashed with chairman's girlfriend-report
Firstpost
by FP Staff 7 mins ago REUTERS – Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s new girlfriend and the New York Times Co's (NYT.N) declining business led to the ousting of Janet Robinson as the newspaper company's chief executive in December. A New York magazine article ...
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NY Times: Is Facebook building a smartphone from scratch?
Android Authority
While NY Times is citing people from deep inside (employees of Facebook and “several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there”), there are still a lot of questions to be answered about FB's plans. Will the company manufacture a smartphone ...
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Android Authority
Ex-NY Times CEO clashed with chairman's girlfriend: report
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
(NEWS.GNOM.ES) – Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s new girlfriend and the New York Times Co's declining business led to the ousting of Janet Robinson as the newspaper company's chief executive in December. A New York magazine article published this week ...
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Facebook Could Really Make A Smartphone This Time
RedOrbit
According to the NY Times, the company has already hired several Apple employees who previously worked on the iconic and popular iPhone and iPad. In 2010, rumors began to circulate about a Facebook smartphone, though it was later revealed that the ...
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RedOrbit
NJ man charged with killing Etan Patz confessed crime to prayer group 30 years ago
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Members of a prayer group Pedro Hernandez, the accused killer of Patz, told the NY Times, he admitted during a 1980s prayer group to strangling the youngster. BLACKWOOD — Pedro Hernandez confessed last week to the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Book review: Alien vs Predator
Taipei Times
By Dwight Garner / NY Times News Service, New York “My heart is lovely, dark and deep,” Michael Robbins writes in a poem called Plastic Robbins Band in Alien vs Predator, his first collection. He's lying, shamelessly. Based on these buzzing, ...
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Unhappily married? Check into the 'Divorce Hotel'
TheCelebrityCafe.com
In a twist on reality TV, Jim Halfens is introducing Divorce Hotel, a program where couples can check in married, and check out divorced, the NY Timesreports. So how does it all work? With the help of lawyers and mediators, the once-married-couples ...
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More rumors about Facebook's phone come out
The Driod Guy
According to NY Times, this news comes from “employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook's plans.” The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple ...
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The Driod Guy
Facebook Phone Coming In 2013?
The Inquisitr
The NY Times reports that Facebook has hired several engineers (most of which worked on the iPhone or the iPad) in order to design their own phone. Rumors about the Facebook Phone have been floating around for years and according to Tech Crunch, ...
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The Inquisitr
Facebook hiring Apple engineers to work on smartphones
NDTV
According to NY Times sources, most of whom include Facebook employees and several engineers sought by Facebook recruiters, the social giant has hired more than half a dozen Apple engineers who worked on the iPhone and iPad. These engineers have joined ...
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NDTV
Is Facebook building a smartphone?
IT News Africa
“Mr. Zuckerberg asked about intricate details, including the types of chips used,” he told NY Times. When contacted regarding their development plans, Facebook referred back to a statement it made late last year, saying “We're working across the entire ...
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Facebook is Building a Smartphone and It's Hiring Apple iPhone Engineers to Do It
Techvibes (blog)
According to the NY Times, Facebook is recruiting several former Apple iPhone and iPad engineers to work on the project—"more than half a dozen" so far, the Times' inside sources claim. And apparently those old rumours of a phone were true as well ...
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The Oakland Tribune, a kvetch
Santa Rosa Press Democrat (blog)
We get three newspapers at home, real paper newspapers — The Oakland Trib, the Chron and the Sunday NY Times. I always start with the sports section while Mrs. Cohn Zohn reads the news. Hey, I'ma sportswriter. In the Trib, I love to read Poole and ...
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Salon's charges of CIA ties to the Paris Review? Read skeptically
Los Angeles Times
... space to mention that the Evergreen Review published its interview with Che Guevara in 1968, a year after the connection between the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA had been revealed in the NY Times report, altering its role and its name.
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May 27, 2012: New Superman Book Receiving Rave Reviews
Superman Super Site
Furthermore, Janet Maslin, book reviewer at the NY Times, recently wrote "The coolest biographical subject [of the summer] is a comic-book character. She went on to write, "We know our times by our heroes, and Larry Tye's “Superman” is a study of how ...
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Facebook's own smartphone coming next year?
The Mobile Indian
According to some Facebook employees and those close to the Buffy project, whom NY Times has quoted, Facebook has hired a team of former Apple employees who worked on the iPhone for the smartphone project. One among them is the person who worked on the ...
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The Mobile Indian
It's Memorial Day
Gothamist
The NY Times' editorial notes, "After a decade of two wars, there are many lost lives to mourn. But nature is doing all it can to comfort. Life, it seems to be saying, continues on from summer to summer. There are memories and sadness, ...
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Gothamist
Facebook working on own-brand smartphone again
Tech Digest
"The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said," reads the piece in the NY Times.
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NYPD May Visit Land Fills To Search For Etan Patz's Remains
Gothamist
Tomas Rivera told the NY Times he didn't come forward "because he did not confess to me [individually]... He confessed to the group." Rivera confirmed he had spoken to the NYPD, "The detectives told me not to say anything. I am keeping my mouth shut.
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Gothamist
Are You a Dissenter?
Dissident Voice
by Jonik / May 28th, 2012 Jonik is a long-time contributor of cartoons to National Lampoon, New Yorker, NY Times, Gourmet, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Audubon, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Wall St. Journal, Mad, and other national publications.
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Corrections: May 28
New York Times
NATIONAL A report in The Caucus column on Friday about a new poll in Massachusetts that shows Mitt Romney is unlikely to win the state he led as governor referred imprecisely to his college education. While Mr. Romney did indeed get a graduate degree ...
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Zuck's Facebook Wedding Cost £5 Million
Gizmodo UK
Luckily, despite losing a few paper billions since the IPO, Zuckerberg can afford things like hiring Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to sing at his own wedding, as reported by the NY Times. That probably ate up a decent chunk of the budget, ...
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My second-most-remarkable moment
Enter Stage Right
But it was on the NY Times best seller list. Vahrenholt's left credentials, in contrast, have hit the German media full on. He's had big-time interviews in Der Spiegal and Die Welt, and a TV production. Now the whole of Europe has been forced to look ...
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Facebook working on its own smartphone - out next year claims NY ...
By Danny Brogan
Perhaps a new Facebook phone ties in with the news that the company is looking to buy Opera Software, which could in turn create a new mobile platform exclusive to the handset. Whatever the speculation as to what a Facebook phone may ...
Pocket-lint : Latest News
A Memorial Day for War's Fallen, Perhaps Someday for War Itself ...
By By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Is it possible that a day will come when warfare will be history, instead of news— when there'll be a memorial day not only for those who sacrificed, but for war itself? There's a long line of argument pointing to an eventual end to war, in part ...
Dot Earth
Permanent Link to Is Facebook building a smartphone - IT News Africa
By Charlie Fripp
“Mark is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms,” a Facebook employee said, who spoke to NY Times only on the condition of anonymity for fear of ...
IT News Africa news alert
U.S.C. Media Program Trains Afghan Film Students - NYTimes.com
By By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Just a Minute: Why New Orleans? David Carr discusses why New Orleans and Michigan are on the leading edge of corporate experiments to end daily print newspaper publication in favor of Web-based news sites. May 25 ...
Media Decoder
Responses to - India Ink - The New York Times
By By HEATHER TIMMONS
Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg NewsStudents gather on the campus of the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, Karnataka in this Aug. 7, 2003 file photo. “I graduated 10 years ago from one of India's reputed B-schools, and oh boy, I was ...
India Ink
Remembering the Crew of a Lost Chinook - NYTimes.com
By By JAMES DAO
Ms. Quade has worked in television for Fox News and CNN. She recently produced and directed a short documentary about Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, “Horse Soldiers of 9/11,” that premiered at the G.I. Film Festival in ...
At War
Has the Revolution Failed Egyptians? - NYTimes.com
By By DANIEL POLITI
“This direct clash between diametrically opposed authoritarian and religious visions of Egypt's future firmly marginalizes the liberal and secular option,” writes the Gulf News in an editorial. “This kind of choice is absolutely not what the ...
Latitude
Greeks Unite Against Lagarde After 'Tax-Dodgers' Jibe - NYTimes.com
By By HARVEY MORRIS
“Insulting,” said Evangelos Venizelos, the Socialist leader, in response to an interview Ms. Lagarde gave to The Guardian, a British newspaper. “Greek workers pay their taxes, which are unbearable,” said Alexis Tsipras of the far-left Syriza ...
IHT Rendezvous
NCAA Preview: Maryland's Bernhardt Isn't on the Field, but He's Still a
By By CONNOR LETOURNEAU
From the Bowl Championship Series to March Madness, to news and features about one's alma mater or local collegiate team, The New York Times will take readers inside the world of collegiate athletics with interviews, insights and analysis ...
The Quad
Alan Perna, a 1950s Autograph Hound, Preserves Portraits of a Lost ...
By By DAVID W. DUNLAP
City Room® is a news blog of live reporting, features and reader conversations about New York City [Highlights]. Reader comments are moderated [Details]. Send questions, suggestions or complaints by e-mail for prompt attention.
City Room
Up All Night, Scanning for Breaking News - Video Library - The New ...
James Crockman has a keen ear for breaking news information culled from a squawking sea of radio reports from New York City's emergency responders.
video.nytimes.com/.../up-all-night-scanning-for-breaking-new...
News Quiz | May 28, 2012 - NYTimes.com
See what you know about the news of the day. ... We invite students 13 and older to comment on issues in the news. See all Student Opinions » · How To Use ...
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New Orleans Times-Picayune Is Said to Face Big Cuts - NYTimes.com
A request for comment late Wednesday night from the newspaper's editor, Jim ... The paper's staff was also awarded a Pulitzer for its breaking newsreporting.
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../new-orleans-paper-said-to...
JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% - NYTimes.com
Simon Dawson/Bloomberg NewsJPMorgan Chase, center, in London, where the losing trades were initiated. The Federal Reserve is examining the scope of the ...
dealbook.nytimes.com/.../jpmorgans-trading-loss-is-said-to-ris...
Ex-NY Times CEO clashed with chairman's girlfriend ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: (Reuters) - Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s new girlfriend and the New York Times Co's declining business led to the ousting of Janet Robinson as ...
news.yahoo.com/ex-ny-times-ceo-clashed-chairmans-girlfrien...
Berkshire Bets Again on Newspapers With Media General Deal ...
Bill Gates, back, watches Warren Buffett during a newspaper tossing ... And among Berkshire's older holdings is The Buffalo News and a stake in The ...
dealbook.nytimes.com/.../berkshire-bets-again-on-newspapers-...
Verizon Clarifies: Unlimited Data Plans to Die Slow Death ...
Verizon on Wednesday outlined its goals with shared data plans, and somenews organizations incorrectly reported that it would kill unlimited data plans the ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../verizon-clarifies-shared-data-plans/
Reduced Publishing Schedule for New Orleans Times-Picayune ...
Cheryl Gerber for The New York TimesThe Times-Picayune newspaperoverflow ... The Web site, meanwhile, will increase its online news-gathering efforts “24 ...
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../new-orleans-times-picayu...
'NY Times' On Reparative Therapy: 'It Is Absurd'| News | Towleroad
The New York Times' editorial board today celebrated recent news that Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel the.
www.towleroad.com/.../ny-times-on-reparative-therapy-it-is-a...
Le Bernardin gets top review from the NY Times | Fox News
You can say what you want about the New York Times, but in the food world, a good review from the Gray Lady can make or break a restaurant.
www.foxnews.com/.../le-bernardin-gets-four-stars-from-ny-ti...
N.Y. Times reports on Amendment One ... - News-Record.com
The New York Times today reported on the backlash Replacements Limited experienced for its vocal opposition to North Carolina's Amendment One, which ...
www.news-record.com/.../ny_times_reports_on_amendment_...
Live Blog: Facebook's Market Debut - NYTimes.com
The animation studio famous for its swift skewering of news events is poking fun at Facebook's stock price. The social network hasn't received the first day pop ...
dealbook.nytimes.com/.../live-blog-facebooks-market-debut/
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