Write-Offs: 01.03.13
$$$In Victory for Google, U.S. Ends Antitrust Investigation [NYT]
$$$Scandal Hits Greek Tourism Agency [WSJ]
$$$Fairytale of New York — in pari passu, anyway [FTAV]
$$$John McAfee Pimped Out 29 ‘Pillow Talk Masters’ to Spy on Belize: Here’s What He Found [NYO]
$$$Russia grants citizenship to Depardieu [FT, outstanding photo]
$$$A little bit of adolescent pushback, as teens begin to express their individuality, is good, said Leslie Whitten Baughman, a child therapist with a practice in Sacramento. But drugging your parents "would not be a healthy level of rebellion." [Sac Bee]
$$$ A top electronic trading firm is looking for a C++ developer in LA [DBCC]
$$$Transocean to pay $1.4 billion for role in BP oil spill [Reuters]
$$$"Loblaw Buying Canada Safeway No Pipe Dream in Spinoff" [Bloomberg!]
$$$The Macroeconomics of Middle Earth [WCI]
$$$Why Are Dogs Racist? Canine Experts Speak [Gawker]
$$$ Drew Magary profiles Snoop Lion (né Snoop Dogg) [GQ]