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Friday, June 3, 2011

Today in Slate: Romney Means Business; Plus, Saletan on Kevorkian

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A Cover-Up, Not a Crime.

A Cover-Up, Not a Crime.

Why the case against John Edwards may be hard to prove.

By Richard L. Hasen

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Romney Means Business

Romney Means Business

With a slow economy, can Mitt Romney's pitch work?

By John Dickerson

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Jill Abramson: Built Truck Tough

Jill Abramson: Built Truck Tough

An excellent, if unsurprising, choice for executive editor of the New York Times.

By Jack Shafer

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Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death

Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death

How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz.

How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz.

I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It

I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It

How Bad Is the Latest Dismal-Sounding Economic News?

How Bad Is the Latest Dismal-Sounding Economic News?

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The Best Thing About the New X-Men: The Love Affair Between James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender

The Best Thing About the New X-Men: The Love Affair Between James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender

Is The Killing's Nuanced Portrait of Grief the Reason Viewers Are Losing Patience With It?

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Culturebox: How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee?

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How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee?
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By Nina Shen Rastogi
Posted Friday, June 3, 2011, at 11:21 AM ET

Sukanya Roy and Richard A. Boehne. Click image to expand.Last night, Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania, won the 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling cymotrichous, a Greek-descended word meaning "having wavy hair." Are your orthographic skills better than an eighth grader's? Try our mock spelling bee and find out.

Each word in the quiz below won some lucky kid the grand prize in a past bee. Click on the audio player to hear the word pronounced. Need a hint? Click and drag your cursor over the [bracketed] area to reveal the word's part of speech, definition, use in a sentence, language of origin, and, finally, its spelling.

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Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Today's Cartoon: Might

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Moneybox: No Worse Than Expected

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Sure, the economy is bad. But at least it's meeting expectations.
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Posted Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 6:38 PM ET

Unemployment line. Click to expand image. If you thought the recovery was on track--the economy growing again, unemployment slowly receding, housing prices stabilizing, the stock market rising--you thought wrong. In recent weeks, virtually every indicator has headed south. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that such setbacks are hardly unexpected.

Let's start with housing, which accounts for about 20 percent of the national GDP. This week, the most-watched housing index confirmed that prices have dropped to a new recession-era low, down in 19 of the 20 biggest metro regions from a year ago and confirming a double dip. The National Association of Realtors also reported a sharp 12 percent drop in pending home sales for April--meaning that further price declines are likely.

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Annie Lowrey reports on economics and business for Slate. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for the Washington Independent and on the editorial staffs of Foreign Policy and The New Yorker. Her e-mail is annie.lowrey@slate.com.

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How Many People Actually Buy Groupons


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How Many People Actually Buy Groupons

Of Groupon's 83 million email subscribers, just 19%, or 16 million have actually bought a Groupon, according to its S1 filing.

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