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		<title>Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fallujah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In April 2004, U.S. Marines assaulted the Iraqi city of Fallujah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, to clear it of insurgents.  Operation Vigilant Resolve destroyed the city and left tons of depleted uranium-munitions amid the rubble. The military has always insisted that the radioactive substance
Health researchers, on the other hand, are discovering the horrible truth:
Today, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1606</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Snakes in Suits&#8221; Thriving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Fraud Magazine published a fascinating interview with Dr. Robert Hare and Dr. Paul Babiak, authors of Snakes in Suits, on identifying psychopathic fraudsters in the corporate world. (Thank you, naked capitalism, for the link.)
In it, we learn that companies have become more &#8220;psychopath friendly&#8221; &#8230;
Babiak: The change of organizational structures from large and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1594</link>
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		<title>Kudos for Cheating Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers of my investigation into Macy&#8217;s jewelry sales will be dismayed to learn that the Women&#8217;s Jewelry Association issued an award for excellence last year to Bea Spiech, Macy&#8217;s vice president and divisional merchandise manager of fine jewelry.
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		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1592</link>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In about a week, I will be moving from San Francisco to Boston to start work at Boston Review.  In light of my cross-country transfer, I will be making changes to the website.  Local links will disappear and blogging will drop Bay Area matters.
That is all.
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		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1590</link>
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		<title>Rubies for $6 per carat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember my story on those glass-ruby composites that Macy&#8217;s sells as &#8220;rubies&#8221; for hundreds of dollars per carat to this very day?
Gemologist and author Gary Roskin saw them being sold in Las Vegas recently for $6 per carat wholesale.  Be sure to click through to see pictures of the stones piled up in cardboard boxes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1585</link>
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		<title>White House Hosts &#8220;Insurance Against Catastrophic Failure Summer&#8221; Events Across (Battleground) U.S.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, the Obama administration is calling it &#8220;Recovery Summer&#8221; — a series of barnstorming events around select parts of the country to highlight how the stimulus package is creating millions of jobs.  But I decided to go with Larry Summers&#8217; appellation.
And look at the itinerary: Ohio, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania . . . isn&#8217;t it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1572</link>
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		<title>Bleacher Psychologists Need to Shut Their Pie Holes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Psychology Today, I explain why Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert has no evidence for his claim in the New York Times that Alex Rodriguez choked in the lead-up to his 600th home run.
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		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1568</link>
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		<title>BP and the Government Partnering to Silence Scientific Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda Hooper-Bui, an entomologist at LSU A&#38;M who researches Gulf habitats, wrote an important piece for The Scientist arguing that BP and government agencies are working in concert to squelch the dissemination of scientific research.  In short, independent scientists are faced with a catch-22: sign confidentiality agreements to conduct research in the area and give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1558</link>
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		<title>Obama Fundraiser Gets Pass From IRS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the IRS admitted an error of more than $325 million in a high-stakes tax battle with Vi, an operator of upscale retirement communities.
The news struck me as odd, because the IRS somehow admitted error even though it continued to defend its underlying position—that so-called &#8220;entrance fees&#8221; paid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1522</link>
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		<title>The Ethically Challenged Charlie Rangel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The House ethics committee revealed its charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D– N.Y.) last week. Progressive bloggers were keen to point out that they didn&#8217;t add any significant facts to what had already been reported.  However, that reaction was not entirely true, as the New York Post, which broke several of the key Rangel stories, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrarianpundit.com/?p=1534</link>
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