Newsletter 529
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Tearful Senator Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribes
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5. http://b.rw/soNZ6n
William Rashbaum | NYT | 20 December 2011
Classic New York corruption story. State senator drove Bentley, lived in
"garish" Brooklyn mansion built for a mafia boss. Used "baby talk" with his
"intimate companion", a gynaecologist, who handled the incoming bribes
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tearful-senator-pleads-guilty-accepting-bribes
[7]The Failure Of The Euro
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tW2Y5F
Martin Feldstein | Foreign Affairs | 15 December 2011
Outstanding essay on history of euro crisis, way forwards for single
currency: "The eurozone is likely to continue with almost all its current
members. The challenge now will be to change the economic behavior of those
countries" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/failure-euro
[9]Twins
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rXtbyF
Peter Miller | National Geographic | 16 December 2011
"To biomedical researchers all over the world, twins offer a precious
opportunity to untangle the influence of genes and the environment—of nature
and nurture." Super feature looks into what makes identical twins different
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/twins
[11]The Media Made Malcolm X
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11. http://b.rw/ulvsex
Peter Ling | History Today | 20 December 2011
Interesting essay on activist Malcolm X. Should we consider him a civil
rights leader? Probably not, his association with Nation of Islam undermines
this view. It's also wrong to claim media misrepresented him. Rather, they
made him [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/media-made-malcolm-x
[13]Bashar al-Assad, His Father's Son
Links:
13. http://b.rw/snSufB
Jerrold Post | Foreign Policy | 20 December 2011
Ex-CIA analyst discusses Syrian leader's trajectory from moderniser to
mass-murderer. Parallels with Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam. Both spent time
in the West, enough to learn new ideas, but not enough for deep change
[14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bashar-al-assad-his-fathers-son
[15]How Luther Went Viral
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15. http://b.rw/vErYqX
Anonymous | Economist | 17 December 2011
"Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones,
and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority." But
revisiting Luther in 16th Century Germany, shows social media is nothing new
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-luther-went-viral
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Bruce Forbes on Christmas History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-forbes-on-christmas-history
Did you know that Santa Claus was a 4th century bishop in what is now
Turkey? That Puritans tried to outlaw Christmas? Or that Tiny Tim was
originally Little Fred? We shed light on Christmas’s pagan past and
consumerist present [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-forbes-on-christmas-history
Featured Special Report
[19]Christopher Hitchens
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Remembering the superlative essayist, polemicist and debater [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Reader Recommendations
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Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/13-bankers-by-simon-johnson-and-james-kwak
[28]13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/13-bankers-by-simon-johnson-and-james-kwak
[29]Daron Acemoglu says: “This shows how the finance industry became what it
is, not because of its genius but because, politically, we got rid of some
regulations”[30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daron-acemoglu-on-inequality
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/julianne-moore-sarah-palin
Meryl Streep was persuasive as Margaret Thatcher. But Julianne Moore comes
straight out of uncanny valley [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Václav Havel, on politics
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33. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Václav_Havel
"The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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