Newsletter 430

13 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]How To Really Save The Economy
Links:
5. http://b.rw/q8Beqm

Robert Barro | NYT | 11 September 2011

Harvard professor argues for austerity not stimulus. But with a twist: "I
propose a consumption tax, an idea that offends many conservatives, and
elimination of the corporate income tax, a proposal that outrages many
liberals" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-really-save-economy

[7]Racially Profiled And Cuffed In Detroit
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mRI6Ab

Shoshana Hebshi | Stories From The Heartland | 12 September 2011

Disturbing epilogue to 9/11 commemorations. Half-Jewish, half-Arab woman
from Ohio tells how she was hauled off a plane and taken away by Homeland
Security after an anonymous complaint by another passenger [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/racially-profiled-and-cuffed-detroit

[9]How Fast Can China Go?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/p7iYrY

Simon Winchester | Vanity Fair | 13 September 2011

Wonderful, evocative account of maiden journey on China's new needle-nosed
CRH380A supertrain. Reveals why "to Westerners, who have to endure
regulatory tedium and budget delays, what is happening in China simply
beggars belief" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-fast-can-china-go

[11]Why They Get Pakistan Wrong
Links:
11. http://b.rw/q2oC1o

Mohsin Hamid | NYRB | 12 September 2011

Commentary on the "hard country", focusing on its fraught relationship with
the US and kinship systems that shape its politics. US aid is considerable
but conflict that's come with it has had vast human costs for Pakistanis
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-they-get-pakistan-wrong

[13]The Eunuch Admiral
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oYeJVn

Frank Viviano | California | 9 September 2011

A Ming cup leads to a new appreciation of Zheng He, greatest seafarer in
China's history. Inauspicious start: Orphaned and castrated by cavalrymen
aged 10. But rose to become architect of awesome Ming navy and epic
adventurer [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/eunuch-admiral

[15]Mr Rodgers's Neighborhood
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qFrfON

Nile Rodgers | NYT Magazine | 7 September 2011

Tales of an unconventional childhood in this excerpt from musician's
forthcoming memoir. "Heroin often turns addicts into gifted salesmen. Once,
Thelonious Monk came over to buy my mom’s fur coat for his girlfriend"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mr-rodgerss-neighborhood

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Tom Holland on Ancient Rome
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tom-holland-on-ancient-rome

How accurate is what we think we know about the Romans? The author of
_Rubicon_ tells us about the exercise of power, the staging of ceremony and
the influence of religion in ancient Rome [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tom-holland-on-ancient-rome

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