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A new podcast explores the CIA’s involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Berlin Wall

A new podcast explores the CIA’s involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions

Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has done plenty of extensive and gripping longform journalism, including his most recent book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (which I could not recommend more highly). His newest project is a slight departure from covering topics of crime and…
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May 23, 2020
Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016) Berlin Wall

Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016)

in Music | May 20th, 2020 1 Comment Advertisement In 2016, King Crimson performed "Heroes" at the Admiralspalast in Berlin, just after David Bowie’s death, and nearly forty years after the song was written and recorded next to the Berlin Wall. It was "a celebration, a remembrancing and an homage,"…
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May 20, 2020
BANK OF AMERICA: 5 main themes will shape the post-coronavirus investing landscape. Here’s how investors can play the winners and losers of each. Berlin Wall

BANK OF AMERICA: 5 main themes will shape the post-coronavirus investing landscape. Here’s how investors can play the winners and losers of each.

The coronavirus pandemic has remade the global economy, and Bank of America strategist Haim Israel says its effects will last for decades.He writes that new technologies — especially in healthcare — and a greater focus on health by governments and investors will play major roles.  Israel also writes that some of…
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May 19, 2020
Have You Seen This Tegu? These 4-Foot-Long Lizards Are Invading Georgia and Eating Everything in Their Path Berlin Wall

Have You Seen This Tegu? These 4-Foot-Long Lizards Are Invading Georgia and Eating Everything in Their Path

If you’re out for a walk in Georgia and happen to see a 4-foot-long black lizard with a white speckled pattern across its back, you shouldn’t panic. What you should do is try to take a photo—it might be an Argentine tegu, a non-native lizard species that could soon wreak…
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May 19, 2020
I, John Kennedy Toole Berlin Wall

I, John Kennedy Toole

The following is excerpted from Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco's new novel, I, John Kennedy Toole, based on a true story of the making of A Confederacy of Dunces. Blanco is the author of two New York Times bestsellers and Carroll is the former editor-in-chief at Grove Press. He could…
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May 18, 2020