Newsletter 544
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]State Of The Union
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5. http://b.rw/yUW8bp
David Remnick | New Yorker | 9 January 2012
Book review that may obviate your need to read Jodi Kantor's "The Obamas".
Her book serves up a few scoops of ice cream; Remnick gives some historical
perspective on first couple dynamics. Nixon, predictably, comes out badly
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/state-union
[7]In The Cave: Philosophy And Addiction
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7. http://b.rw/yCWwsb
Peg O’Connor | NYT | 8 January 2012
Philosopher, alcoholic, re-visits Plato's allegory of the cave, to see what
light it can shed on world of addiction, relapse, recovery. "Those who do
make it out of the cave and manage never to relapse again are few and far
between" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cave-philosophy-and-addiction
[9]King Carl Of Canarsie
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wPLVX1
Geoffrey Gray | New York | 8 January 2012
On the corruption of NY state senator and Brooklyn power broker, Carl
Kruger. Soon to be sentenced. Strange thing is he still lives in the same
house, with the same wallpaper. He never used the bribes to enrich himself.
Here's why [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/king-carl-canarsie
[11]Untangling Rebekah Brooks
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zLj9lt
Suzanna Andrews | Vanity Fair | 9 January 2012
Full story of how Brooks rose from small town obscurity to head News
International by age of 41. Became Murdoch's "fantasy daughter" along the
way. And friends with three prime ministers. Then phone hacking scandal
broke [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/untangling-rebekah-brooks
[13]The ABR Underground
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13. http://b.rw/wVf7bj
John Heileman | New York | 6 January 2012
Where ABR stands for Anyone But Romney. Santorum must over-deliver in New
Hampshire as Romney disappoints. Then win South Carolina. Romney still wins
eventually, but may be mortally wounded if he hasn't killed off ABR in
Carolina [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/abr-underground
[15]Japan's Past Perfect
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ywY5hn
Don George | National Geographic | 23 December 2011
Enticing account of a trip to the Japanese island of Shikoku. "The faint
scent of charcoal from last night’s hearth rides on the air. I feel as if
I’m in the hermit’s hut in a 17th-century ink-and-brush painting"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/japans-past-perfect
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Anatol Lieven on Understanding Pakistan
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anatol-lieven-on-understanding-pakistan
For all its problems, Pakistan is not a failed state, says the academic and
writer. He recommends what to read if we’re to grasp the nuances of this
complex and potentially explosive nation [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anatol-lieven-on-understanding-pakistan
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from the
comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]nuzav Pity The Billionaire — By Thomas Frank — Book
Review: [22]t.co/XlT8njdr [23]#browsings [24]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/pity-the-billionaire-by-thomas-frank-book-review.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/scoop-by-evelyn-waugh
[26]Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/scoop-by-evelyn-waugh
[27]William Boyd says: “I think Scoop is Waugh’s masterpiece. His brilliance
was as a comic writer, and in Scoop you get the apotheosis” [28]FiveBooks
Archive
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27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Truth In Advertising
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/truth-advertising
What life would be like if we all said just what we meant. Oldie but goldie
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Karl Smith, on a paper by Ken Rogoff
Links:
31. http://modeledbehavior.com/2012/01/08/rogoff-on-growth
"I can’t help but feel something must have been lost in publication"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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