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By Peter Sterne 6/18 7:10pm

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Michael Hastings Dies In Car Accident

Buzzfeed reporter Michael Hastings, 33, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, the site announced this evening.

Editor in chief Ben Smith released a statement praising Mr. Hastings. “Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians,” Mr. Smith wrote. “He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold.” Read More

By Steve Huff 3/30/12 12:25am

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Charles Snelling, PA Republican Pol and Author of NYT ‘Life Report’ Commits Murder-Suicide

Charles Darwin Snelling, a noted Pennsylvania Republican who wrote a “Life Report” published by columnist David Brooks in the Times last December, killed his wife and committed suicide in Pennsylvania on Thursday. Mr. Snelling was 81. He had been married to wife Adrienne for 6 decades. Mr. Snelling had been caring for his Alzheimer’s-afflicted wife for six years and  in his long essay published by the Times on December 7, 2011, expressed what seemed a fundamentally positive view of the situation: Read More

By The Dow Jones Industrial Average 9/27/10 9:27pm

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Dow Diary: Bots + Banks = Bad Business

Dear Diary,

Another lackluster day — and I’m not just talking about the weather here in New York, which has been abysmal. To add to the shoe-soakings and cab-splashings, I lost 48 points today after taking a late-afternoon dive.

What’s with me? Well, for starters, it looks like banks are having a rough Read More

By The Dow Jones Industrial Average 9/23/10 8:57pm

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Dow Diary: Down in the Dumps On Dreary Data

Dear Diary,

Well that was unpleasant.

I lost 76 points today, my worst performance in a while. Only four of my stocks went up.  And I was down pretty much all day. Lower at the open, tried to fight back to breakeven, then a late-afternoon nosedive to finish the session. Total bummer.

It didn’t help Read More

By The Dow Jones Industrial Average 9/14/10 8:56pm

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Dow Diary: Feeling Kind of Directionless

Dear Diary,

Talk about mixed results. Today was one of those days that just kind of blows by. There are some fun moments, then you start to drag, and then suddenly it’s over and you’re not even sure how to feel. I dropped a little less than 18 points, a fraction of a percent. Not Read More

By The Dow Jones Industrial Average 9/07/10 9:53pm

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Dow Diary: Dang European Banks Killed My Buzz

Dear Diary,

Things were looking up heading into this past weekend. Four days of upside action from Tuesday to Friday, then a killer three-day weekend to catch my breath. It really seemed for a minute like I had something good going. But I should’ve known it wouldn’t last.

Truthfully, I’m not even sure what it Read More