Newsletter 201


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[1]Decline Of The Serial Killer
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Christopher Beam | Slate | 5 January 2011

Estimated 200 serial killers active in the 1980s; 61 in the 2000s. Why the
  decline? Could be better law enforcement. Or perhaps even crime has its
  zeitgeist. Child kidnaps for 1920s; serial killing for 1980s; terrorism for
  2000s

[2]Obituary: David Hart
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      2. http://b.rw/gwttcN

Anonymous | Telegraph | 5 January 2011

Old Etonian, property tycoon, libertarian. "Sun King lifestyle". Adviser to
  Mrs Thatcher. Suite at Claridges. Backed coup in Equatorial Guinea. Wrote
  novels. Five children by four mothers. "An Edwardian attitude to women"

[3]Paper on ESP Expected To Prompt Outrage
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      3. http://b.rw/idZknK

Benedict Carey | NYT | 5 January 2011

Peer-reviewed journal prepares to publish paper offering experimental
  evidence for extrasensory perception. “It’s pure craziness", says critic.
  “There was no mechanism by which we could understand the results”, says
  editor

[4]Blair Hitch Project
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      4. http://b.rw/gM1Cnu

Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair | 6 January 2011

On debating Tony Blair in Toronto. "The high-wattage grin was still there,
  framed in a lined face with cropped and graying hair that still gave the
  ephemeral impression of youth. I asked him in private what it was like to be
  hated"
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Today's FiveBooks Interview

[6]Lord Douglas Hurd on =POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES=
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      6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lord-douglas-hurd-on-political-biographies

Former Foreign Secretary and writer Douglas Hurd says that biographies of
  politicians are the best way to make history interesting. His five books
  look at the lives of some of Britain’s best-known Tory Prime Ministers
  [7]Continue reading…
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      7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lord-douglas-hurd-on-political-biographies

Topic

[8]China
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      8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china

Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
  experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
  articles they recommend
  [9]Continue reading…
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      9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china

Book of the Day

[10]Edward Heath
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      10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/edward-heath-by-philip-ziegler

-by Philip Ziegler -
  Lord Douglas Hurd: I worked for Ted Heath for nearly eight years so I knew
  him well and I admired him. I also know Philip Ziegler quite well so I was
  interested  to see what he made of Ted Heath, who really isn’t an easy
  subject because he has the reputation of being bad-tempered and churlish.
  But there was another side to him that doesn’t usually come out and I think
  Philip has brought that out quite successfully.

[11]More recommendations…
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      11. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks

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