Newsletter 717
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]After America
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6. http://b.rw/N3GWXA
Dexter Filkins | New Yorker | 2 July 2012
Afghans fear that their civil war, suspended but never settled, will
resume when US troops leave. "Everyone is preparing. It will be
bloodier and longer than before, street to street. This time, everyone
has more guns, more to lose" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/after-america
[8]The Libor Scandal And The Price Of Prosperity
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OUEA3g
Umair Haque | HBR | 29 June 2012
"This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It's not about a bank. It's not
even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. It's about
life, tragedy, and human potential. It's about the capacity to create a
worthwhile future" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/libor-scandal-and-price-prosperity
[10]Mitt Romney And The New Gilded Age
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10. http://b.rw/N3Vqds
Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 30 June 2012
"The reforms of the Progressive Era at the turn of the 20th century
saved American democracy from the robber barons, but the political
power of great wealth has now resurfaced with a vengeance." Will
Democrats do anything about it? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-romney-and-new-gilded-age
[12]Apes With Apps
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12. http://b.rw/OUBxIy
Ken Schweller | IEEE Spectrum | 1 July 2012
"Sitting with his Motorola Xoom tablet, he’s rapt, his dark eyes fixed
on the images, fingers pecking away at the touch screen." Teco can't
speak, but he's building a vocabulary of thousands of words. And he's
an ape, not a child [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/apes-apps
[14]The Real Hong Kong Handover
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14. http://b.rw/McyNFN
BreakingViews | Reuters | 29 June 2012
Special report (13-page PDF) from Reuters' crack commentary team,
arguing that the appointment of a new chief executive with no deep
roots in the old colonial order is a change at least as profound as the
legal handover was in 1997 [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/real-hong-kong-handover
[16]The ‘Busy’ Trap
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OUCRuI
Tim Kreider | NYT | 30 June 2012
You're busy. I'm busy. Even our children are busy. It's the curse of
modern life, but one we seem to have chosen rather than had forced upon
us. Why? "Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge
against emptiness" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/‘busy’-trap
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Wai Chee Dimock on Hemingway in Paris
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
Paris in the 1920s was a creative melting pot, the haunt of Ernest
Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. The Yale
English professor gives us a feel for what it was like to be there
[19]Read on
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19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
Featured Special Report
[20]Sport's Violence Problem
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Nobody wants to take away the thrill and drama of the NFL or NHL, but
is middle age dementia an acceptable price for ex-players to pay?
[21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Confronted by hypocrisy | Cliff Schecter | Opinion Al
Jazeera English [23]t.co/fjbEP7jZ via @[24]ajenglish #[25]browsings
#[26]teaparty [27]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/2012630131753593235.html
24. http://twitter.com/ajenglish
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#teaparty
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee
[29]To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee
[30]Clive Stafford Smith says: "Atticus Finch is a great hero. The book
touches on so many issues and deals with so many prejudices. It’s a
book that was way ahead of its time" [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/clive-stafford-smith-on-capital-punishment
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Snow White And The Huntsman
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/snow-white-and-huntsman
Walkthrough of the special effects needed to make a monster materialise
out of a melting mirror [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Henry Kissinger, on realism
Links:
34. http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-limits-of-universalism-7397
"History cannot be shaped, only enacted"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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