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As you may have heard, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi (at right) was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for a little-known altercation during which he threw a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush. It’s kind of a bummer, and in a deliciously Kafka-esque way says a lot about the humorless nature of bureaucracy. [...]

Freelance mascot and sports writer Onesie here, back for 2009’s first edition of Listicles’ sports column Sporty Saturdays. As 2008 reminded us, an entire year’s most lasting memories tend to be crammed into its last quarter (elections, financial crises, shoe-throwing incidents). Meanwhile, the summer Olympics in Beijing already seem light years away, but took [...]

With high-profile international shoe terrorism spiking over the weekend, in this installment of our weekly financial column Big Money Mondays we take a humbling look at the costs of this string of crimes that often go unreported (possibly because they are, more often than not, perpetrated by reporters).
Circa pre-recession times – but just in time [...]