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1 Jul 2011 • 3 min read

[5]Married, With Infidelities
Links:
5. http://b.rw/l7N4Hx

Mark Oppenheimer | NYT | 30 June 2011

Dan Savage, sex columnist, discusses monogamy. "He believes that pretty much
anything can be used to spice up a marriage, although he excludes faeces,
pets and incest, as well as minors, the nonconsenting, the duped and the
dead" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/married-infidelities-0

[7]Fall Of The House Of Busch
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mG2ZSm

Susan Berfield | Businessweek | 30 July 2011

Anheuser-Busch, brewer of Bud, was the biggest beer maker in America. It
survived Prohibition, strikes, price wars but at a crucial moment failed to
adapt. The unravelling, when it came, was swift. Both for business and the
Busches [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fall-house-busch

[9]Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal
Links:
9. http://b.rw/j0C8dS

Michael Mooney | GQ | 30 June 2011

Jerry Joseph got off a Greyhound bus in Odessa, Texas in February 2009. He
said he was a homeless orphan from Haiti. He was taken in, enrolled in high
school. Soon he was a local sporting hero. But all was not as it appeared
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/blindsided-jerry-joseph-basketball-scandal

[11]What Could You Do With $20 Billion?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/lE6QBB

Peter Tchir | Zero Hedge | 30 June 2011

No, not a new Brewster's Millions. We're talking bailouts. Argues
contagionists hugely understate cost of preventing defaults. And overstate
problems caused by a Greek default. Solution to this lies in dealing with
banks, not Greece [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-could-you-do-20-billion

[13]The Movie Star
Links:
13. http://b.rw/j3HZjm

Bill Simmons | Grantland | 29 June 2011

In Hollywood they make too many movies and don't have nearly enough stars.
So they create "stars" to sell movies—ordinary actors who disappoint, a lot
of the time. Sports is more rigorous. To stay at the top, you have to
deliver [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/movie-star

[15]How (And Why) An NBA Team Makes A $7m Profit Look Like A $28m Loss
Links:
15. http://b.rw/km5HOQ

Tommy Craggs | Deadspin | 30 June 2011

Fascinating analysis shows why sports teams can be so valuable to owners.
Even if, especially if, they're making losses. Thing is, those losses aren't
always as real as they seem. And that makes them very useful. Here's how it
works [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-and-why-nba-team-makes-7m-profit-look-28m-loss

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Hari Kunzru on the Mojave Desert
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hari-kunzru-on-mojave-desert

The novelist explains his fascination with the Mojave desert – a mysterious,
forgotten place full of secret military sites where the silence feels like a
physical weight on one’s ears [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hari-kunzru-on-mojave-desert

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