Newsletter 768
[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]Life With Syria’s Rebels In A Cold And Cunning War
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6. http://b.rw/RBKLvF
CJ Chivers | NYT | 21 August 2012
Reporter embeds with the "Lions of Tawhid", rebel group fighting near
Aleppo. Mix of civilians who took up arms and army defectors who joined
them. One of many such bands that are gradually getting organised and
battle-hardened [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-syria’s-rebels-cold-and-cunning-war
[8]A World Of 'Hillbilly Heroin'
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8. http://b.rw/TUjAd9
Chris Hedges | TomDispatch | 21 August 2012
Opiate addiction is destroying West Virginia. "For fun, addicts,
especially the young, hold 'pharm parties', in which they combine their
pills in a bowl, scoop out handfuls of medication, swallow them, and
wait to feel the result" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/world-hillbilly-heroin
[10]From Bible-Belt Pastor To Atheist Leader
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10. http://b.rw/PwiN1u
Robert Worth | NYT | 22 August 2012
Robert Worth goes to DeRidder, Louisiana to meet a hero of the American
atheist movement – a former preacher who, at great personal cost,
discarded his Christianity. "We can't leave the cause to
intellectuals," he says [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bible-belt-pastor-atheist-leader
[12]Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You To Imagine...
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12. http://b.rw/RBZCXa
Eve Ensler | Huffington Post | 20 August 2012
And still he won't stand down. In the meantime, here's a powerful piece
of writing in which the author of The Vagina Monologues takes aim at
the Missouri congressman for his recent comments about rape (h/t Daniel
Lippman) [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dear-mr-akin-i-want-you-imagine
[14]The Euro Is Not In Trouble; The People Are
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14. http://b.rw/SgHU95
Vincent Navarro | Counterpunch | 16 August 2012
"The major forces behind the Euro have done very well and continue to
do so. As long as they continue to benefit from the Euro’s existence,
the Euro will continue to exist." Interesting take on the history and
future of eurozone [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/euro-not-trouble-people-are
[16]Interview: Francis Ford Coppola
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Sa4uSn
Anisse Gross | Rumpus | 17 August 2012
Interesting throughout. "The short story does much better in
translation to film than a novel. It’s already in the right shape and
size. A movie is like writing a haiku. You have to be so pared down.
Everything has to be so loaded" [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-francis-ford-coppola
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Mira Kirshenbaum on Relationship Therapy
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mira-kirshenbaum-on-relationship-therapy
Relationship guru Mira Kirshenbaum tells us to forget about the ‘Mars
and Venus junk’ and to concentrate on the mismatched narratives in our
relationships [19]Read on
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19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mira-kirshenbaum-on-relationship-therapy
Featured Special Report
[20]Women and the Workplace
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Women in the West may be slowly winning the battle for workplace
equality. But at what price? [21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking |
Simon Jenkins [23]t.co/oEflLYU4 via @[24]guardian [25]#browsings
[26]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/21/west-hypocrisy-pussy-riot?CMP=twt_gu
24. http://twitter.com/guardian
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/monetary-history-united-states-1867-1960-by-milton-friedman-and-anna-jacobson-schwartz
[28]A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and
Anna Schwartz
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/monetary-history-united-states-1867-1960-by-milton-friedman-and-anna-jacobson-schwartz
[29]Robert Barro says: “If you buy only one economics book, it should
be this. The book is important for our understanding of the Great
Depression” [30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-barro-on-lessons-great-depression
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Malcolm Gladwell On Social Media
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/malcolm-gladwell-social-media
Lessons of the Arab Spring. Revolution happens on the street, not on
the internet [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Tom Stoppard, on honesty
Links:
33. http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/versions-stoppard?page=full
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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