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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [14 Mar 2012]

14 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

Disarming Viktor Bout

Nicholas Schmidle | New Yorker | 12 March 2012

Gregarious, smooth-talking polyglot. Ran legitimate air freight company, ferrying food and peacekeepers into world's trouble spots. Expanded into arms. Supplied both sides in Angolan civil war. Not cruel; just utterly amoral Comments

Foxwoods Is Fighting For Its Life

Michael Sokolove | NYT | 14 March 2012

Foxwoods Casino covers an area of 6.7 million square feet. It has a staggering 6,300 slot machines, and 10,000 employees. When it launched, it was a goldmine for the Pequot Tribe. But now it's crumbling under $2.3bn of debt Comments

It Is Israel's Fears We Must Tame

David Grossman | Guardian | 12 March 2012

There may well be a disaster in the future if Iran gets a nuclear bomb. But there will certainly be a disaster immediately if Israel attacks Iran. Israel is more directly endangered by its own fears than by Iran's ambitions Comments

Why Finish Books?

Tim Parks | NYRB | 13 March 2012

Good subject for learned rumination. Obviously you don't finish a bad book. But what about a good one, when you feel you've just had enough of it? Does that still count as having read it? Can you decently recommend it to others? Comments

Taking To The Streets

John Markakis | London Review Of Books | 14 March 2012

Fabric of Greek democracy is unravelling. Savage cuts imposed by Europe. Politicians impotent, dismissed, loathed. Bailout or not, the political system is finished. Country stands on verge of radical social change Comments

Leon Theremin: The Man And The Music Machine

Martin Vennard | BBC | 13 March 2012

Ninety years ago a young Russian scientist changed music forever with one magical invention, The Theremin. A small wooden cabinet with glass tube oscillators and dual antennae, it was the world's first electric musical instrument Comments

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