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'68 Blocks': One Neighborhood's Struggle With Violence
January 22, 2013 Bowdoin-Geneva is a Massachusetts neighborhood infamous for its violence. The 68-block area of Boston has been consistently more dangerous than Boston as a whole over the past 25 years. A team of reporters from the Boston Globe spent almost a year there seeking to understand the perpetual cycles of violence.
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The 'Underlying Logic' Behind The Madness Of The Office
January 17, 2013 Those of us who work in an office know that there is at least some part of the organization that is utterly frustrating. In The Org, authors Tim Sullivan and Ray Fisman argue that the back-to-back meetings and unending bureaucracy serve an important purpose.