Newsletter 723
[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]Does George Osborne Care?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LwZ0zH
Charles Moore | Telegraph | 6 July 2012
Last global crisis of confidence was in early 1980s. Leaders of the
day—Reagan, Bush, Thatcher, Kohl, Mitterrand, Gorbachev, John Paul—rose
to the challenge. Today's leaders don't get it. We need statesmanship,
not politicking [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/does-george-osborne-care
[8]The Worst Marriage In Georgetown
Links:
8. http://b.rw/RtVTa7
Franklin Foer | NYT | 6 July 2012
Bizarre tale of Albrecht Muth, Washington dinner party host, fantasist,
alleged murderer. Claimed to be an intimate of radical Iraqi cleric,
Moqtada al-Sadr ("Mookie"). But really did have Cheney and Antonin
Scalia round for dinner [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/worst-marriage-georgetown
[10]For Mitt Romney, Avoiding Risk Means Obscuring His Own Positions
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Lux67t
Joshua Green | Boston Globe | 6 July 2012
Good piece on the Romney "fog machine". Republican candidate's
vagueness on policy is a sustained attempt to avoid risk. It's a
campaign strategy, but it's also in his nature, how he behaved in
business too [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-romney-avoiding-risk-means-obscuring-his-own-positions
[12]Sarkozy's Houdini Act
Links:
12. http://b.rw/L7SFsV
Eric Pape | Foreign Policy | 6 July 2012
"If the Energizer Bunny presidency is over, the French can be forgiven
for feeling like that rascal rabbit has left an improbably long trail
of fecal pellets behind him." Which may lead to court, now his legal
immunity has lapsed [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/sarkozys-houdini-act
[14]My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NbZQfc
Dwight Allen | LA Review Of Books | 3 July 2012
For 25 years Allen refused to read a Stephen King novel. Suprised by
growing critical acclaim, he succumbs and makes his way through
several. Judges them against other classic works of literary fiction.
He's not impressed [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/my-stephen-king-problem-snob’s-notes
[16]Surefire Tips And Tricks To Convince People You Have Psychic Powers
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Nchp2j
Esther Inglis-Arkell | io9 | 5 July 2012
Ruthlessly seek out most vulnerable people; employ all manner of "cold
reading" techniques - rainbow statements, trivia statistics, vanishing
negatives; build up the pressure; and then cheat. Here's how it's done
[17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/surefire-tips-and-tricks-convince-people-you-have-psychic-powers
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Attica Locke on Texas
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
The author of the acclaimed noir novel Black Water Rising tells us
about stories of freed slaves, oil barons and gangsters on the run –
books that capture the outlaw spirit of her home state [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
Featured Special Report
[20]Globalisation
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
A collection of thought-provoking articles and interviews on the
challenges of globalisation [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
Reader Recommendations
@[22]breizh2008 RT @[23]polit2k: French WWI artworks preserved in caves
| Christian Fraser | BBC [24]t.co/rQJ7XPuw #[25]browsings[26]More like
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/harpo-speaks-by-harpo-marx
[28]Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/harpo-speaks-by-harpo-marx
[29]Craig Brown says: “This the perfect show business autobiography. It
goes from anecdote to anecdote somewhat, but they’re all good
anecdotes” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]BBC Olympic Games Trailer
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/bbc-olympic-games-trailer
In which we are invited to think of the Olympic Games as videogames
writ large [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Daniel Kahneman, on cognition
Links:
33. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/08/this-much-i-know-daniel-kahneman
"Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It
would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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