Newsletter 664
[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]Greekonomics
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5. http://b.rw/JdaCGp
Paul Mason | BBC | 9 May 2012
What happens after an election result like that? And in circumstances
like these? When to be in power is to commit political suicide. And
even the traditional parties cannot cooperate. Mason sees two possible
routes out [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greekonomics
[7]How Hewlett-Packard Lost Its Way
Links:
7. http://b.rw/JY1JhY
James Bandler and Doris Burke | Fortune | 8 May 2012
"For a decade now the company has seemed more like a tawdry reality
show than one of the world's great enterprises. It is in the midst of
an existential crisis." Can Meg Whitman, HP's third CEO in seven years,
put it right? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-hewlett-packard-lost-its-way
[9]The Trouble With Profiling
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9. http://b.rw/ICofu9
Bruce Schneier | Sam Harris | 8 May 2012
Security expert Schneier replies to Sam Harris's call for targeted
profiling of Muslims at airports. "Invasive TSA screening is nothing
more than security theatre. It doesn’t make us safer, and it’s not
worth the cost" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trouble-profiling
[11]What Will Become Of The Paper Book?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/KENa5e
Michael Agresta | Slate | 8 May 2012
Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they'll look different.
This beautifully illustrated essay argues that as their role as vessels
for delivering text is lost to digital, their other qualities will grow
in importance [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-will-become-paper-book
[13]Egyptians v Saudi Arabia: It's All Got Rather Messy
Links:
13. http://b.rw/J5YRPl
Magdi Abdelhadi | Guardian | 8 May 2012
Excellent short analysis of Egypt/Saudi Arabia spat. After years of
clientelism under Mubarak, Egypt is now an unruly place; Saudis use
financial arm-twisting to try to maintain old ways. But the old ways of
the region are gone [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/egyptians-v-saudi-arabia-its-all-got-rather-messy
[15]Who Wants To Buy Honduras?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/JXZGun
Adam Davidson | NYT | 8 May 2012
Charter cities: "Economic zones founded on the land of poor countries
but governed with the legal and political system of rich ones." Model
comes from 19C colonialism. Does it still work? Honduras will give it a
try [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-wants-buy-honduras
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Edmund de Waal on Inspiration for Writing and Art
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edmund-de-waal-on-inspiration-writing-and-art
The author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, who is also a ceramic artist,
tells us about books that have influenced both his careers, from the
life of a celebrated potter to a collection of Japanese haiku [18]Read
on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edmund-de-waal-on-inspiration-writing-and-art
Featured Special Report
[19]London and the Olympics
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/game-by-ken-dryden
[29]The Game by Ken Dryden
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/game-by-ken-dryden
[30]Bruce Dowbiggin says: “The Game may be the best sports book ever
written by a participant. Ken Dryden, the best hockey goalie of his
era, played for the Canadiens in the 1970s” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Five Reasons To Care About The Middle East
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/five-reasons-care-about-middle-east
Stephen Walt lists them. First up: Half a billion people live there
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]David Rieff, on democracy
Links:
34. http://www.democracyjournal.org/24/democracy-no.php?page=2
"Once one declares that democracy, for all its faults, is the
highest form of contemporary political civilisation, one is talking
religion, not politics"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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