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Monahan's shareholders in the locker room primarily have one yardstick (money) and one concern (how they’ll get more of it).

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — These were some of the scenes of resurrection here last Wednesday, 11 days before the first NASCAR race in more than 26 years at the North Wilkesboro Speedway:

If Josh Harris didn’t exist, Tom Wolfe would have had to create him, then tweet about him. Harris is a thoroughly modern Master of the Universe, a man who made billions in private equity and who, like Gordon Gekko, creates next to nothing but aims to own everything. And in…

The second series of the scathing social satire ignites a chain of terrible rich people swanning about in Italy

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Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

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Author Ken Kesey, flush with cash from the publication of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” filled an aging, broken-down school bus with friends in 1964 and led them on a drug-fueled drive across America, later recounted in vivid detail in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 best-seller, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”