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Bernard Hopkins and the Endless End of Boxing
by James Verini + Follow
Grantland | January 2012
A look into the always-changing Bernard Hopkins.
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The Good Bad Son
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New York | May 2011
Saif Qaddafi had an affinity for America. And for a brief, tantalizing moment, the feeling was mutual.
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The Curious Case of Joseph and Nicholas Brooks
by James Verini + Follow
New York | February 2011
Joe, father, won an Oscar for composing “You Light Up My Life.” Now he faces 127 counts of sexual misconduct, including rape. Nick, son, allegedly killed his girlfriend in Soho House.
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The Great Cyberheist
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New York Times Magazine | November 2010
Inside the mind of Albert Gonzalez, America’s most notorious computer hacker.
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Lost Exile
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Vanity Fair | February 2010
The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.
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D’Escoto Inferno
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The New Republic | June 2009
Meet the Sandinista who runs the United Nations.
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Arming the Drug Wars
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Portfolio | June 2008
The U.S. has pledged more than $1 billion to help Mexico win its war on drugs. But even as the body count rises above 10,000, most of the guns that do the killing—Colt .38 Supers and big-bore Barrett rifles among them—keep pouring in from the U.S.
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Big Brother Inc.
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Vanity Fair | December 2007
Knowing your business is big business for Aristotle Inc., whose Orwellian database of voter records has been an essential campaign tool for every president since Ronald Reagan. As the 2008 race heats up, the company’s shadowy founder, John Aristotle Phillips, unveils his most powerful personal-space invader yet.
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Will Success Spoil MySpace.com?
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Vanity Fair | March 2006
In two years, MySpace has become the most popular social-networking site on the Web, a virtual city of sex and youth culture, with its own celebrities, Casanovas, and con artists. But MySpace's most unlikely character may be its conservative new owner: Rupert Murdoch.