Newsletter 385

[5]Washington Is Drowning America
Links:
5. http://b.rw/q0wycD

Clive Crook | FT | 24 July 2011

"One one side you have the unrivalled energy and ambition of the American
worker. On the other you have the unrivalled complacency, self-righteousness
and bloody-mindedness of Washington. I am starting to wonder which will
prevail" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/washington-drowning-america

[7]Kipling’s Game Theory For Greece
Links:
7. http://bit.ly/oV4oH7

John Kay | John Kay | 27 July 2011

Imagine an auction in which players bid for a $1 note—but both the winner
and the underbidder have to pay up. Bids will probably spiral far above $1,
as good money chases bad. That's where Europe now finds itself with Greece
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kipling’s-game-theory-greece

[9]Famine In East Africa
Links:
9. http://b.rw/o8lgmj

Anonymous | In Focus | 27 July 2011

Powerful photo essay revealing the horrors of the drought affecting Somalia,
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya. UN has declared it a famine. But aid is
restricted by bandits, terrorist groups and unresponsive Western governments
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/famine-east-africa

[11]Hezbollah: Party Of Fraud
Links:
11. http://b.rw/n2T3mg

Matthew Levitt | Foreign Affairs | 27 July 2011

Iranian funding helped Hezbollah become the dominant political force in
Lebanon. But Iran's economy is not what it was. Which has forced Hezbollah
to turn to international crime on a massive scale. And therein lies its
weakness [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hezbollah-party-fraud

[13]The Invention Of Our Music
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qqb6HQ

Peter Philips | New Republic | 28 July 2011

Great watershed in history of music was Guido of Arezzo's invention of
notation, early in 11C. Used to this day. Transformed religious life. Monks
no longer had to memorise whole vast corpus of sacred music needed for
church year [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/invention-our-music

[15]Resource Limitations
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qcSrlG

Jeremy Grantham | GMO | 22 July 2011

Investment note (PDF) identifies challenges of providing for a growing
population. "We will need to protect and nurture our resources –
particularly our farms – if we do not intend to follow them into sand and
rocks" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/resource-limitations

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Maria Sveland on Feminism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/maria-sveland-on-feminism

The feminist author chooses liberating literature for women, from Virginia
Woolf to Erica Jong. She says that men still don’t share equal
responsibility in the home, and that life after divorce is easier [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/maria-sveland-on-feminism