RefBan

Referral Banners

Saturday, December 17, 2011

This Week's Top Stories


Hi David,

Hope you're having a great weekend :) As requested, these are this week's top stories from The Next Web:

By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers!

The Next Web







Top Stories from the last 24 hours


Hi David,

These are the top stories from The Next Web over the last 24 hours.

By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers!

The Next Web






BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Military Says Last American Troops Have Left Iraq

The final convoys of U.S. soldiers have crossed the border into Kuwait, completing the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

More headlines from FoxNews.com:
http://email.foxnews.com/t?ctl=1821A:072D1708422B6ECFA6E714DFA6E44990&

Watch Fox News Channel for complete coverage of this story and all breaking news.

------------------------------------------------------------

To learn more about all of our newsletters and alerts visit: http://email.foxnews.com/t?ctl=1821B:072D1708422B6ECFA6E714DFA6E44990&

Fox News never sends unsolicited email. You received this mail because you requested a subscription to Breaking Alerts from FoxNews.com.

To unsubscribe from this email notification, click here:

http://email.foxnews.com/u?id=072D1708422B6ECFA6E714DFA6E44990

To unsubscribe from ALL email notifications, click here:

http://email.foxnews.com/u?id=072D1708422B6ECFA6E714DFA6E44990&global=1


Copyright 2011 FOX News Network, LLC
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

All Rights Reserved

The Browser daily newsletter [17 Dec 2011]

17 December 2011

 Best of the Moment

Christopher Hitchens: 'The Consummate Writer, The Brilliant Friend'

Ian McEwan | Guardian | 16 December 2011

Wonderful, touching piece from McEwan remembering last weeks of his great friend. A writer, to the last: "His head would droop, his eyes close, then with superhuman effort he would drag himself awake to type another line" Comments

How National Identities Are Really Formed

Hussein Ibish | Ibishblog | 14 December 2011

Spiky, enjoyable analysis that takes as its starting point Newt Gingrich's recent remarks about Palestinians being "an invented people". They're no more or less "invented" than any other modern national identity Comments

Sing Of The New Invasion

Slavoj Zizek | New Statesman | 12 December 2011

"Fiennes's Coriolanus is like the eyes of God or a saint in an Orthodox icon: Without changing a word in Shakespeare's play, the film looks squarely at our predicament today, offering us the figure of the radical freedom fighter" Comments

A Death Of One's Own

Peter Singer | Project Syndicate | 16 December 2011

"In the US, you can buy a gun and put a bullet through your brain without breaking any laws." But if you ask your doctor to shoot you, or to kill you by some other means, you are party to a crime. What sense does that make? Comments

If You Can’t Notice A Gorilla In Plain Sight, How Can You Testify As A Witness?

Daniel Simons | The Crux | 14 December 2011

Interesting post on limits of our perception, awareness. As notorious "gorilla test" shows, we are far less likely to notice unexpected events than we presume. Which could have severe consequences, when it comes to matters of law Comments

Hitch

Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 16 December 2011

Brief but brilliant. A fabulous vignette. The scene: An exclusive, allegedly anti-Semitic country club in Palm Beach. Christopher Hitchens is shown to a table in the middle of the dining room... Comments

Box Office Report: 'Sherlock,' 'Chipmunks' Lead Another Scrooge Weekend

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view.
The Hollywood Reporter Box Office
 
December 17, 2011
Box Office Report: 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' Lead Another Scrooge Weekend
"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" bucks the downturn, doing strong business in IMAX sneaks in advance of its Dec. 21 launch.

More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | The Business | Awards


You are currently subscribed to The Hollywood Reporter Box Office newsletter as dwyld.kwu.11muchado2011@blogger.com
Newsletter Preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | Share on Twitter or Facebook
© 2011 The Hollywood Reporter 5700 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
All rights reserved. Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy.

To ensure delivery of our emails, please add email@mail.hollywoodreporter.com to your address book.

Cheat Sheet - Newt Has Peaked

Today: Typhoon Strikes Philippines, Obama Defers to States on Health Care, Troops Charge at Egypt Protesters
The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet: Morning

December 17, 2011
ANYONE'S GAME

Get ready for a train wreck out of Iowa. The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon and George Caudill say Newt Gingrich is starting to lose steam, Ron Paul is surging, and it's showtime for Jon Huntsman. Iowa won't be the crystal ball that predicts the clear winner of the GOP presidential nominee—rather, the verdict is likely to be muddled coming out of the nation's first caucuses, and could even result in a five-way tie.

DISASTER

Landslides and flash floods in the Philippines caused by a typhoon have killed more than 250 people and left almost 400 people missing. Typhoon Washi hit the island of Mindanao on Friday night, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Most of the missing are from a coastal village where houses were swept into the sea while people slept. The Philippine social-welfare department estimates that about 100,000 people have been displaced.

CHANGING COURSE

In an attempt to deflect one of the main Republican lines of attack on the health-care-reform program, President Obama announced that the new law will not set standard health benefits that insurers must provide. Instead, states can specify their own benefits by picking an existing health-care plan as a benchmark, and requiring all other insurers provide benefits of the same or greater value. Under this plan, the program will resemble the regional differences in state Medicaid programs.

UNREST

Things are getting ugly in Egypt, where soldiers baton-charged protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, beating them and setting their tents on fire. This came a day after deadly street clashes in the city killed eight people and wounded more than 300, following the country's second round of voting. Both Islamist and liberal politicians criticized the Army's handling of the protests.

DIPLOMACY

The new Libyan government finally has some money to spend, now that the United Nations has lifted sanctions on its central bank. The move unfreezes tens of billions of dollars in assets. Meanwhile, Leon Panetta is in Tripoli to meet with the new government—it's the first ever visit by a U.S. defense secretary. He'll meet with Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib and Defense Minister Osama al-Juwali, as well as visit the graveyard of 13 U.S. sailors killed in a raid on a pirate ship in Tripoli's harbor in 1804.


REPORTAGE
Hitchens's Greatest Journalism
The Daily Beast picks highlights from Hitchens's prolific career.
OCCUPY
Desmond Tutu Backs Protesters
Says Trinity Wall Street church should help them.
ROUGH START
Zynga Shares Tumble
First day after IPO filed.
JUSTICE
Afghan Woman Won't Wed Rapist
Karzai says she can marry whomever she wants.
SPLITSVILLE
Kobe Bryant's Wife Files for Divorce
Allegedly had enough of his cheating.
Sign Up and Share

Invite Friends Sign Up
GET The Cheat Sheet
A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors.


GET The Yes List
Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast.





More from The Daily Beast


Around the Web

Facebook Twitter
Visit The Daily Beast


If you are on a mobile device or cannot view the images in this message, click here to view this email in your Web browser.

To ensure delivery of these emails, please add thedailybeast@e2.thedailybeast.com to your address book.



If you have changed your mind and no longer wish to receive these emails, or think you have received this message in error, you can safely unsubscribe here.