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Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media for $689M in Cash and Equity Booting Up: Shaking My Damn Head Edition Best Tech Events This Week (NY Tech Meetup, Inaugural Queens Tech Meetup, Blog World, PDF, MusicTech, TechAviv)

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Morning Read: Exit Duane; Mayo Mike; Romney Advising Romney Ed Towns to Officially Endorse Charles Barron Weekend Roundup: Towns for Barron; Debating Sugar; McCotter’s White Flag

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MoMA PS1′s Young Architects Program Expands to Istanbul, Joining Initiatives in Rome and Santiago SculptureCenter’s Bill Bollinger–Filled Annex Will Close Early Roberta Smith Thinks of Herself as ‘Just Another Vote’

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To Do Monday: Out Like a Lambda The CO’s Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants Iris Apfel: A 90-Year-Old Style Icon on Wearing Jeans and Being a Somewhat Reluctant Subject of a Forthcoming Maysles Doc

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At Bloomberg LP, Your Colleagues Know When You're Slacking Off Cheryl Strayed's Memoir So Good Oprah Winfrey Reboots Book Club Bill Clinton, Media Critic

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So That's Why They Tore Down the Sundrome: JetBlue's New T5i and Why JFK Now Has Only Six Terminals Fun: An Interactive Map of Every NYPD Stop from 2011, By Race and Neighborhood!The Secrets of Cameo Appearances on Gossip Girl: Exposed!

Culture

MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program Expands to Istanbul, Joining Initiatives in Rome and Santiago Rachel Lee Hovnanian Serves Up 'Mud Pie' at Leila Heller Gallery Jeff Koons Will Teach Public School Next Week

Wall Street

MF Global Invesitgation Focuses on Treasurer, Soros Speaks on Europe: Wall Street Roundup So Now We're Blaming JPMorgan's $2.3 Billion Trading Loss on Biology Berkshire Scion Peter Buffett Bails Out of One Madison for an Extra $750,000

Real Estate

So That's Why They Tore Down the Sundrome: JetBlue's New T5i and Why JFK Now Has Only Six Terminals The CO's Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants Berkshire Scion Peter Buffett Bails Out of One Madison for an Extra $750,000

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The CO’s Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants John Grotto Parts Ways With The Durst Organization President Obama to Celebrate Flag Day at 1 World Trade Center

By Choire Sicha 3/19/08 7:02pm

Hundred-Million-Dollar Racketeering Complaint Filed Against Metro Newspapers

Lawyers for Daniel Magnus, the former publisher of free-sheet newspaper Metro New York, have filed an amended complaint in New York’s Southern District Court charging the media company with racketeering.

Magnus first filed suit against his former employers in February, claiming that he was owed severance and bonus pay; now he’s amended the complaint to Read More

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