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Too big to burn:
AIG plays God in a man-made firestorm

By McKenzie Funk

McKenzie Funk’s last article for Harper’s Magazine, “Cold Rush,” appeared in the September 2007 issue.

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SEE ALSO: Career as AIG fire chief; Career as CEO of American International Group, Inc.; Construction industry; Dwellings; False personation; Fire and fire prevention; Fire prevention; Los Angeles; Greenberg, Maurice R.; Barbon, Nicholas; Privatization; DiGiovanna, Sam; Views on free-market economics; Wildfires
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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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