Newsletter 561
[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]Sarkozy Has Learned To Like Angela Merkel
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5. http://b.rw/wTMCPb
Britta Sandberg and Mathieu von Rohr | Spiegel | 24 January 2012
Intelligent interview with Alain Minc, French political fixer. On
Sarkozy: "The crisis has definitely helped him to become adult." On
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "The details weren't known, but people knew
about his fragility" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sarkozy-has-learned-angela-merkel
[7]Q&A With A 'Daily News' Crime Reporter
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zQ8TfE
Paul Hiebert | The Awl | 20 January 2012
"I deal in other people's agony. I do. You can't candy coat that. But
if you can't live with that, you shouldn't be in this game. I'm not
some nice person from a nice place. I'm not. I do my damndest to be a
decent man" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/qa-daily-news-crime-reporter
[9]Amazon's Hit Man
Links:
9. http://b.rw/A7BkUo
Brad Stone | Businessweek | 26 January 2012
Helpful update on Amazon's decision to compete with traditional
publishers. "On the West Coast people cheerfully call this kind of
arrangement coopetition. On the East Coast it’s usually referred to as
getting stabbed in the back" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/amazons-hit-man
[11]The Cold Choice – Jobs Or Jihad
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wJY4mR
Olivier Roy | New Statesman | 25 January 2012
On Islamism after the Arab Spring and electoral success. "It is not the
convictions of political actors that shape their policies but the
constraints to which they are subject." And Islamists are just as
constrained as anyone else [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cold-choice-–-jobs-or-jihad
[13]'Who’s There?' Is The Self A Convenient Fiction?
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13. http://b.rw/x5pcL5
Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 24 January 2012
Confronting the idea of the unified self. Those who stand against the
concept include Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker and Michael Gazzaniga. In
favour are the arguments of philosopher Julian Baggini. Who's correct?
[14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who’s-there-self-convenient-fiction
[15]A Few Truths About Davos
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ygqN2C
Lance Knobel | Davos Newbies | 25 January 2012
"The dark, dirty secret you learn when you run the program at Davos is
that the vast majority of CEOs have nothing to say. There is no
correlation between being a successful business leader and having
interesting ideas" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/few-truths-about-davos
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Simon Winchester on American Stories
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-winchester-on-american-stories
Modern America is a story of expanding frontiers, says the bestselling
author. He tells us about five novels that shed light on the social
history of his adopted homeland, from the late 19th century to the
Great Depression [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-winchester-on-american-stories
Featured Special Report
[19]Free Will
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k Google is FUBAR | Sebastian Anthony t.co/8bXadeb6 via
@extremetech #browsings #google [21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spirit-level-why-more-equal-societies-almost-always-do-better-by-richard-wilkinson-and-k
[23]The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spirit-level-why-more-equal-societies-almost-always-do-better-by-richard-wilkinson-and-k
[24]Danny Dorling says: Spirit Level is an incredible book. It provides
the evidence that inequality is bad for us all including the best-off.
[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/danny-dorling-on-inequality
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Silent GOP Debate
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/silent-gop-debate
If only. This one courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel [27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Somerset Maugham, on quotations
Links:
28. http://twitter.com/randomhouse/status/162176714309513218
"A pretty gift for quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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