Newsletter 479

2 Nov 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Creditors Can Huff But They Need Debtors
Links:
5. http://b.rw/t1ydI8

Martin Wolf | FT | 1 November 2011

Germany wants to keep its surpluses, minimise financing of others' deficits.
It's not going to work. There's been too much borrowing by the profligate,
too much lending by the supposedly prudent. Both are at fault, both must
adjust [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/creditors-can-huff-they-need-debtors

[7]Tech Savvy: Rachel Sterne
Links:
7. http://b.rw/toIdzm

Adam Green | Vogue | 25 October 2011

For those who haven't heard of her, Sterne is chief digital officer of New
York City. Impressive, ambitious, intellectual. "But she’s also really nice
and gracious and poised. She’s a lady. She’s kind of our Kate Middleton”
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tech-savvy-rachel-sterne

[9]Made To Disorder
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rPqmUZ

Jessa Crispin | Smart Set | 28 October 2011

Fascinating essay on mental illnesses as cultural products. From hysteria to
multiple personality disorders. "We learn how to be mad, the same way we
learn how to be male or female, or how we learn how to participate in
society" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/made-disorder

[11]Gilgamesh: An Epic Obsession
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ux3G2C

Theodore Ziolkowski | Berfrois | 1 November 2011

"Within the past decade it has won its place in the standard anthologies of
world literature and become a staple in college courses in literature and
religion." How has the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh won such widespread
acclaim? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gilgamesh-epic-obsession

[13]Speech! Speech!
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vgFoLU

Sam Leith | Intelligent Life | 1 November 2011

The best public speakers play with local, cultural memes: "Barack Obama
sailed to power using rhetoric that would have had satirists sharpening
their pens and the electorate laughing had it issued from the mouth of David
Cameron" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/speech-speech

[15]The Forgotten Hero
Links:
15. http://b.rw/sbpdnw

Tim Layden | Sports Illustrated | 1 November 2011

For five decades Williams College in Massachusetts hadn't issued the number
50 football jersey. No one seemed to know why. The school didn't retire
numbers. And then an email from a former player dropped into the coach's
inbox [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/forgotten-hero

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Heather Brooke on Holding Power to Account
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account

Power corrupts – and even those who start out with good intentions can be
affected. The freedom of information campaigner tells us about books to help
us remember this, from Orwell to a memoir of apartheid [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account

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