Connie Bruck

New Yorker

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Staff writer at the New Yorker magazine

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This week's New Yorker magazine is getting special attention in Southern California for an article called, " The Man Who Owns LA ."  It's about the Anschutz Entertainment Group, or…

Does Philip Anschutz Own LA?

This week's New Yorker magazine is getting special attention in Southern California for an article called, " The Man Who Owns LA ."  It's about the Anschutz Entertainment Group, or…

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Sam Zell, likely next owner of the LA Times , bikes with “Zell’s Angeles” and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi .

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