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[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]Bo Xilai: Power, Death And Politics
Links:
6. http://b.rw/MydUlt
Jamil Anderlini | FT | 20 July 2012
Gripping, fullest account yet of rise and fall of one of China's most
powerful politicians. On this telling, the corruption, criminality and
murder could all have remained hidden were it not for a moment of
arrogance [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/bo-xilai-power-death-and-politics
[8]Muddled Models
Links:
8. http://b.rw/QaMlUO
Buttonwood | Economist | 20 July 2012
Why economics fails as a science. Fails to foresee or solve basic
problems. Riven by fundamental disagreements. Neglects non-financial
motivations. Politicised. Relies on simplified models of world which is
itself in constant flux [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/muddled-models
[10]Does Money Make Us Write Better?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QaNBqY
Tim Parks | NYRB | 20 July 2012
"The key idea is that of a community of reference. Writers can deal
with a modest income if they feel they are writing toward a body of
readers who are aware of their work and buy enough of it to keep the
publisher happy" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/does-money-make-us-write-better
[12]Nokia's Bad Call On Smartphones
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MvseLC
Anton Troianovski & Sven Grundberg | WSJ | 18 July 2012
Years before Apple, Nokia prototyped an iPhone precursor, and an iPad
precursor. Never got either to market. Binged on R&D, couldn't execute.
Took months to make decisions. Once a leader, now "in turnaround". Or
dying [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/nokias-bad-call-smartphones
[14]I Really Resent You Using the Word 'Torture'
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MzARsm
Amy Davidson | New Yorker | 19 July 2012
Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center,
defends waterboarding, Guantanamo, black sites. "Making a few
terrorists uncomfortable for a few days is worth it in order to save
thousands of lives" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/i-really-resent-you-using-word-torture
[16]Blowing Up The King David Hotel
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MMjAqI
Niv Elis | Tablet | 19 July 2012
July 1946 attack helped precipitate departure of British from
Palestine. Niv Elis's 91-year-old grandfather explains how he helped
carry out the bombing, and hide Irgun leader Menachem Begin afterwards
(h/t @polit2k) [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/blowing-king-david-hotel
FiveBooks Interview
[18]William Boyd on Writers Who Have Inspired Me
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
The acclaimed novelist tells us about the authors, from Heller to
Chekhov, who most influenced his own development as a writer – and
reveals the secret to a well-crafted sex scene [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
Featured Special Report
[20]Crime & Thriller Writing
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/crime-thriller-writing
Leading writers discuss their genre and select their top five essential
reads, plus selected articles on the murky world of thrillers and
whodunnits [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/crime-thriller-writing
Reader Recommendations
[22]polit2k "... meltdown of the British establishment ..." Timon of
Athens: the power of money | Paul Mason
[23]t.co/MVeTeG8L @[24]guardian #[25]browsings [26]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/MVeTeG8L
24. http://twitter.com/guardian
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/word-world-forest-by-ursula-le-guin
[28]The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/word-world-forest-by-ursula-le-guin
[29]Paul Kingsnorth says: “It’s an allegory about the human destruction
of nature… a colonisation story set on a planet called Athshe”
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-kingsnorth-on-civilisation-and-its-discontents
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Daniel Kahneman Discusses Well-being
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/daniel-kahneman-discusses-well-being
Goals matter. But take care to pick the right one
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Dwight Macdonald, on Time magazine
Links:
33. http://www.easthamptonstar.com/?q=Books/2012717/Long-Island-Books-Great-Contrarian#.UAoJJEwr5Lo.twitter
"As smoking gives us something to do with our hands when we aren’t
using them, Time gives us something to do with our minds when we
aren’t thinking”
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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