Weekly newsletter 66
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
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Best of the Week
[6]Bo Xilai: Power, Death And Politics
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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. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bo-xilai-power-death-and-politics
[8]A High Holy Whodunit
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LNhjPZ
Ronen Bergman | NYT | 25 July 2012
On the mystery of the Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most
accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. Some of it is in Jerusalem. The
story of how it got there and how some of its pages went missing is to
touch the rawest of nerves [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/high-holy-whodunit
[10]Microsoft’s Lost Decade
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QjvRUN
Kurt Eichenwald | Vanity Fair | 25 July 2012
Compelling, if harsh, takedown of the technology giant – "a high-tech
equivalent of a Detroit car-maker" – and its CEO Steve Ballmer. The
iPhone alone now generates more revenue than all of Microsoft. What
went wrong? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/microsoft’s-lost-decade
[12]The Checkpoint
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NP9jxx
Oded Na'aman | Boston Review | 23 July 2012
Inside the mind of an Israeli soldier. A fantastically interesting (if
dispiriting) account of the psychology of occupation. Israeli army has
power without authority so it must make Palestinians think it is
everywhere, and fear it [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/checkpoint
[14]The Parable Of The Ox
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14. http://b.rw/NTXSVp
John Kay | John Kay/FT | 25 July 2012
There has been a spate of good allegories recently about the world of
finance, and here is another. The story starts at a country fair. You,
and everyone else present, are invited to guess the weight of an ox
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/parable-ox
[16]Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains A Medical Mystery
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MlOYwN
Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik | Wired | 23 July 2012
Nobody survives rabies: It is fatal in all cases. That's what experts
told us for millennia. But then a controversial new treatment allowed
five to survive. Is there a miracle cure? Or were we wrong to assume
rabies always kills? [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/undead-rabies-virus-remains-medical-mystery
[18]We Are Alive
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18. http://b.rw/MiqQLG
David Remnick | New Yorker | 23 July 2012
Huge feature on Bruce Springsteen, still pumping it out at age 62. "His
style in performance is joyously demonic, as close as a white man of
Social Security age can get to James Brown circa 1962 without risking a
shattered pelvis" [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-are-alive
[20]I Will Put Up With Even This Circus For That Bob Beamon Moment
Links:
20. http://b.rw/N7An6R
Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 26 July 2012
Malik is sceptical about the Olympics as an instrument of social good
or tool of economic development. And he dislikes the "militarisation"
and censorship. But still. It's all about those moments of supreme
athletic achievement [21]Comments
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-will-put-even-circus-bob-beamon-moment
FiveBooks Interview
[22]David Runciman on London Olympic History
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
As the Olympics open, David Runciman looks back at the two previous
times that the Games have been staged in London and finds that the
thrift of today looks modest compared with austerities of the past
[23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
Featured Topic
[24]After Aurora
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
How does one make sense of such killings? And can we, will we, do
anything to stop it happening again? [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
Reader Recommendations
@[26]polit2k The Real Reason That Big Banks Have So Many Scandals -
James Kwak - The Atlantic [27]t.co/bGexg29Q #[28]browsings #[29]gfc2
[30]More like this
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26. http://twitter.com/polit2k
27. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-real-reason-that-big-banks-have-so-many-scandals/260405
28. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
29. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[31]Book of the Day
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/nose-tail-eating-kind-british-cooking-by-fergus-henderson
[32]Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking by Fergus Henderson
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/nose-tail-eating-kind-british-cooking-by-fergus-henderson
[33]Giles Coren says: “When he talks about chopping parsley he says,
“Chop it not too fine, but just enough to discipline it”. It’s a
brilliant concept” [34]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/giles-coren-on-food-writing
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[35]The Imam and the Colonel
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/videos/imam-and-colonel
The imam who disappeared. Documentary unravelling a mystery from 1978
[36]More videos
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36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[37]Stanley Kubrick, on life
Links:
37. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/26/stanley-kubrick-playboy-interview
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is
hostile, but that it is indifferent"
[38]More quotes
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38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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