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City Employees in the Crosshairs

The February 1 issue of The New Yorker magazine featured Larissa MacFarquhar’s report of her ride-along adventures with New York’s Department of Investigation, whose mission is to root out fraud and corruption among city employees and the people who deal with them.  A worthy mission, The Free Agent agrees. First stop: the Hill Tap Tavern

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No Free Market on Pandora

“Avatar”, James Cameron’s triumph of 3D visuals over 2D story and characters, has been described as a searing sci-fi indictment of capitalism. So much so, that the Free Agent’s friends and family have been turning cyber-eyes her way for an expected dissection and rebuttal. Well, I finally saw it a week ago, and all I

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