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• Jane Friedman's OpenRoad Gets $3 Million Funding For eBooks Venture

  PaidContent - 2009-08-21

  OpenRoad Integrated Media, a still-stealth NYC-based eBooks marketing and publishing startup, has raised $3 million in funding, in a round led by Bay Area Holdings, a fund affiliated with Kohlberg Ventures, according to a new SEC filing. The company was founded this year by Jane Friedman, former CEO of...

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• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America

  - 2009-02-24

  Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 448 pp., $27.95. In the charming but apocalyptic movie WALL*E, Disney-Pixar spins the story of a cute robot set against a grim backdrop of a...

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• Palo Alto, Calif., experiences Congress of Cities from home.(National League of Cities)(Conference notes)

  - 2008-12-22

  Council Member Sid Espinosa of Palo Alto, Calif., was so inspired by Author Thomas L. Friedman's speech on the need for a "green" revolution at NLC's recent Congress of Cities and Exposition in Orlando, Fla., that he took it home for others to hear--by way of...

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• ESSENTIAL NEXT STEP, THE

  - 2008-11-01

  THE ESSENTIAL NEXT STEP The United States must launch an "Energy-Climate Era" to solve the world's connected crises, an outspoken columnist writes. Thomas Friedman is issuing a national alert. Instead of the Department of Homeland Security's Code Red, his is a Code Green, sounding the threat of climate change, hydrocarbon...

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• Defaming Milton Friedman: Naomi Klein's disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist

  - 2008-10-01

  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, New York: Metropolitan Books, 576 pages, $28 IN THE FUTURE, if you tell a student or a journalist that you favor free markets and limited government, there is a risk that they will ask you why you support...

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• 'World Is Curved' offers valuable historical perspective

  - 2008-09-22

  The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy By David M. Smick Portfolio, 272 pages, $26.95 When Thomas Friedman published The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, the title entered the English...

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• Book Buzz

  - 2008-09-18

  Serious books: Two non-fiction books by prominent journalists -- The New York Times' Thomas Friedman and The Washington Post's Bob Woodward -- enter USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list this week, but neither could outsell the teen vampire romance series by Stephenie Meyer, who continues to cling to four of the...

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• The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea—actually, a rather obvious one

  - 2008-08-04

  The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea--actually, a rather obvious one: name a research institute after Milton Friedman. But some 100 professors throughout the university had another idea: block the naming of the institute after Friedman. Why? Because, in the words of...

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• Friedman's philosophy faulty

  - 2008-07-24

  Thomas L. Friedman's latest foray into the field of philosophical journalism (July 2) makes me want to use words and call people names that are foreign to my (self-proclaimed) sweet disposition. With clenched teeth, I am merely going to mention that high gas prices do not fuel cars, neither does...

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• Flattening globalism: sovereignty. What a glorious word. A bit hard to spell perhaps, but worth every letter

  - 2008-06-30

  Yes, I know it seems like only yesterday that the world was flat. That was Thomas Friedman's best-selling argument: "Walls" were a thing of the past. Flatness, globalism, the twilight of sovereignty--these were the waves of the future. Well, maybe Friedman needs to spend more time with the Irish...

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