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Time to Banish CAPS LOCK

Dustin Lushing — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:37:47 CST

The computer keyboard may be an essential tool of daily life, but everybody is driven nuts by at least one aspect of it, writes Matthew J.X. Malady at Slate . He offers some suggested tweaks:

Journos Outraged as Slate Axes Jack Shafer

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:16:32 CDT

Slate co-founder Jack Shafer, who has been with the online magazine since before its official launch in 1996, is being laid off, it was announced yesterday. The media critic is one of four staff members being let go; Timothy Noah , June Thomas , and Juliet Lapidos are the others, reports the...

Spitzer Hit With $90M Libel Suit

Rob Quinn — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:59:00 CDT

Two former execs at an insurance firm that paid out $850 million to settle allegations of shady dealing brought by Eliot Spitzer in his days as a crusading attorney general are now suing the former governor for libel. The former Marsh & McLennan execs, who claim Spitzer libeled them in...

Spitzer Executes a Textbook Comeback

Gabriel Winant — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:50:12 CDT

Six months ago—to say nothing of a year—predicting an Eliot Spitzer comeback would’ve been laughable. But the financial crisis has speeded up rehab for the disgraced former governor, giving him a chance to use his expertise as “the Sheriff of Wall Street,” writes Politico. Apologizing and disappearing for...

Spitzer: 'What I Did Was Egregious'

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:41:34 CDT

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer opened up about his “egregious” call-girl dalliance and subsequent resignation on NBC's Today this morning. Spitzer, who also discussed his re-emergence as a Slate columnist, claimed that he didn’t hire prostitutes frequently—“not long in the grand context of my life”—but did not...