Newsletter 669
[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]Time To Admit Defeat
Links:
5. http://b.rw/LIAo2w
Anonymous | Spiegel | 14 May 2012
The view from Germany: "Greece has been in intensive care for years,
but the patient, instead of recovering, is just getting sicker and
sicker." Elections were final straw, it's time to leave the euro.
Here's how it could happen [6]Comments
Links:
6. https://thebrowser.com/articles/greece-can-no-longer-delay-euro-zone-exit
[7]Money Unlimited
Links:
7. http://b.rw/JbIT72
Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 14 May 2012
How America's Supreme Court rewrote campaign finance law in the case of
Citizens United. "The decision followed a lengthy and bitter
behind-the-scenes struggle that produced both secret unpublished
opinions and a rare reargument" [8]Comments
Links:
8. https://thebrowser.com/articles/money-unlimited
[9]Is Death Bad For You?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/M8nX2F
Shelley Kagan | Chronicle Review | 13 May 2012
You can't fault the Chronicle for not asking the big questions. The
answer? Prospect of dying is unpleasant for most people. Process of
dying is rarely much fun. Beyond that, it's just the opportunity cost
of not being alive [10]Comments
Links:
10. https://thebrowser.com/articles/death-bad-you
[11]The General's Orders
Links:
11. http://b.rw/MbIzr0
Colin Powell | Newsweek | 13 May 2012
Reflections on Iraq war. "We eliminated the very officials and
institutions we should have been building on, and left thousands of the
most highly skilled people in the country jobless and angry—prime
recruits for insurgency" [12]Comments
Links:
12. https://thebrowser.com/articles/generals-orders
[13]Château Sucker
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KlzyLl
Benjamin Wallace | New York | 13 May 2012
How one man fooled some of the world's most knowledgeable wine
collectors. It's easy to say they should have spotted the con, now that
Rudy Kurniawan has been indicted for fraud. But vanity, greed,
credulity can be a powerful brew [14]Comments
Links:
14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/château-sucker
[15]Love In A Time Of War
Links:
15. http://b.rw/LIvUJc
Sean O'Hagan | Observer | 13 May 2012
Story of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and how they changed war
photography forever. Radical activists, lovers, chroniclers of Spanish
civil war. Both died on assignment. "If your pictures aren't good
enough, you're not close enough" [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/love-time-war
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Mary King on the Equestrian Life
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/mary-king-on-equestrian-life
The world championship winning horse rider, who will represent Great
Britain in the Olympics, tells us what it takes to succeed in her sport
[18]Read on
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/mary-king-on-equestrian-life
Featured Special Report
[19]Euro On The Brink
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so,
how? And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
[21]nuzav As European Austerity Ends, So Could the
Euro [22]t.co/JXnyks78 via @[23]BloombergView #[24]Browsings [25]More
like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://t.co/JXnyks78
23. http://twitter.com/BloombergView
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/heptameron-by-marguerite-de-navarre
[27]The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/heptameron-by-marguerite-de-navarre
[28]Nancy Goldstone says: “Marguerite is clearly getting her revenge on
her husband, and men in general. Think of it as Desperate Renaissance
Housewives” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nancy-goldstone-on-strong-women-bad-marriages
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and Emotion Through Time
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/videos/michael-tilson-thomas-music-and-emotion-through-time
How classical music developed through written notation, the record, and
the re-mix
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]William Gibson, on terrorism
Links:
32. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/vulture_transcript_william_gib.html
If the terrorist can get you to think about what he’s doing as
terrorism, you’re already in his win position
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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