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The life and murder of Stella Walsh, intersex olympic champion.

It's an incredible story, and one that resonates today, involving murder, gender, Nazism, the corruption of the IOC, a bitter athletic rivalry, and the still-unsettled question of how society and sports should treat people who are born of indeterminate gender.
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This strange tale of suburban revenge is incredibly compelling:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/
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And oldie but goodie that I think of whenever there's a major tennis tournament going. "Roger Federer as Religious Experience" by David Foster Wallace.
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Arthur Dent wrote:This strange tale of suburban revenge is incredibly compelling:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/
Holy hell, what a couple of nutjobs.
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The Third Man wrote:
Arthur Dent wrote:This strange tale of suburban revenge is incredibly compelling:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/
Holy hell, what a couple of nutjobs.
So weird. Crazy how the no one could really ever get an answer of why they did it...and yeah what a poorly planned crime...

I mean, get a burner phone if one is necessary. Don't get your DNA all over the drugs,and uh pay some random hobo to call in the wreck less driving.
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4,500 words on buffalo, football, Teddy Roosevelt and violence

BUFFALO
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http://www.avclub.com/article/julia-rob ... ame-243117
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The Third Man wrote:
Arthur Dent wrote:This strange tale of suburban revenge is incredibly compelling:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/
Holy hell, what a couple of nutjobs.
Just read this. Wow. PSYYY-CCHHOO.
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That wasn't a long read at all.
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All about Sam Altman, who is the guy running the company Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. It's kind of a school for startups. It's insanely hard to get into and they pay you to go there (fund your startup). They get 7% equity in your company when you graduate. They've launched companies worth $80 billion today. It's about how this thing is radically changing Silicon Valley. Altman grew up in St. Louis FWIW.

Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny
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