Newsletter 209
[1]Books As Bombs
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Louis Menand | New Yorker | 17 January 2011
On origins, impact of Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique", 1963. Doesn't
seem very radical now. Advised women to prepare for life after children. But
feminism was an idea whose time had come. Friedan gave it a name, and a text
[2]Guideline For Gallery-Opening Etiquette
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Andrew Berardini | N+1 | 14 January 2011
How to meet and greet. What to expect (free alcohol). How to converse. "If
they ask you how you like the show, try to find something polite to say. If
they insist on a real opinion, they’ve got whatever you have to say coming"
[3]Where Did Korean Greengrocers Go?
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Laura Vanderkam | City Journal | 17 January 2011
24-hour grocery stores run by newly arrived Korean immigrants spread through
New York outer boroughs in 1970s. Now they're vanishing. Two reasons:
gentrification of city has pushed up rents; Koreans have moved up in society
[4]Arizona State Of Mind
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Amy Silverman | WP | 16 January 2011
Chilling picture of Arizona life, in wake of Giffords shooting. "The truth
is that few places are as exclusionary as Arizona, where Barry Goldwater
politics still rule the day. Don't even come close. And don't you dare ask
for help"
[5]View full selection
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Today's FiveBooks Interview
[6]Alastair Campbell on =LEADERSHIP AND WINNING=
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6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alastair-campbell-on-leadership-and-winning
Tony Blair’s former communications chief tells us what it takes to win. He
says successful leadership in politics and in sport is about the whole team,
not just the star. But even an ordinary citizen can show moral leadership
[7]Continue reading…
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7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alastair-campbell-on-leadership-and-winning
Topic
[8]Soccer
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8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/soccer
A collection of hand-picked articles and interviews with leading authorities
on the biggest sport in the world
[9]Continue reading…
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9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/soccer
Book of the Day
[10]Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/team-rivals-political-genius-abraham-lincoln-by-doris-kearns-goodwin
-by Doris Kearns Goodwin - This is just about the best book on politics I’ve
ever read. You have to be a bit careful because with somebody like Lincoln
there is such mass of material out there, but what Doris Kearns Goodwin has
managed to do is to give it a freshness and a depth that is very rare –
it’s an unputdownable historical account. And there are an awful lot of
lessons in it for people in politics today.
[11]More recommendations…
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Browsings
[12]alexlankester RT @[13]Granta 'Athletes podium, executives flipchart, and
almost everybody Googles' - You've Been
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