Interesting: Hedge Fund Boss Retires at 37, Calls Traders "Idiots"

U.S. hedge-fund manager Andrew Lahde became famous in his business when one of his funds returned an astonishing 866 percent last year, mostly by betting U.S. housing loans would crash. Now, he's retiring at age 37 and in style: his farewell letter - calling fellow hedgies "idiots," telling them to throw away their Blackberries and appealing for the legalization of marijuana - has stirred waves. "All of this behaviour supporting the aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America," he wrote. Read more about Lahde here.

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Journalists Attacked: "Murder Russia-Style"

This TIME story from Moscow-based Yuri Zarakhovich is a good backgrounder on recent attacks on journalists and political figures in increasingly authoritarian Russia.

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Events: Stevie Cameron Speaks About Pickton Case

Author Stevie Cameron, a member of the advisory board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (of which yours truly is vice-president), will give a talk at Fredericton's St. Thomas University on her years of work investigating one of Canada's most notorious serial killers, Robert Pickton. Cameron, author of The Pickton File, is working on a second book on the gruesome case, The Pig Farm. Her talk happens Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in the McCain Hall auditorium.

TAGS: investigations, justice