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Coleman backers also steer inchoate peace group

By Chris Steller | 05.27.09 | 2:45 pm

bandana2Minnesota businessmen Nasser Kazeminy and John Goodman both back Norm Coleman and both serve on the board of Step into World Peace, a curious local nonprofit that Harper’s Ken Silverstein probes this week.

Coleman and Suitgate: Mum’s the word at Neiman Marcus; more to come?

By Steve Perry | 10.17.08 | 2:33 pm

In the two weeks that have passed since the first public airing of claims that Sen. Norm Coleman received clothing from Neiman Marcus purchased by a wealthy friend named Nasser Kazeminy, we’ve heard  rumors that Star Tribune reporters Paul…

Chris Lehman on “moronic” campaign coverage

By Paul Demko | 08.22.08 | 11:59 am

Ken Silverstein has a wonderfully acerbic Q & A with Chris Lehman about campaign coverage over at Harper’s. A senior editor at Congressional Quarterly and co-editor of Bookforum, Lehman mercilessly skewers the media for its horse-race…