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Monday, May 14, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [14 May 2012]

14 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

Time To Admit Defeat

Anonymous | Spiegel | 14 May 2012

The view from Germany: "Greece has been in intensive care for years, but the patient, instead of recovering, is just getting sicker and sicker." Elections were final straw, it's time to leave the euro. Here's how it could happen Comments

Money Unlimited

Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 14 May 2012

How America's Supreme Court rewrote campaign finance law in the case of Citizens United. "The decision followed a lengthy and bitter behind-the-scenes struggle that produced both secret unpublished opinions and a rare reargument" Comments

Is Death Bad For You?

Shelley Kagan | Chronicle Review | 13 May 2012

You can't fault the Chronicle for not asking the big questions. The answer? Prospect of dying is unpleasant for most people. Process of dying is rarely much fun. Beyond that, it's just the opportunity cost of not being alive Comments

The General's Orders

Colin Powell | Newsweek | 13 May 2012

Reflections on Iraq war. "We eliminated the very officials and institutions we should have been building on, and left thousands of the most highly skilled people in the country jobless and angry—prime recruits for insurgency" Comments

Château Sucker

Benjamin Wallace | New York | 13 May 2012

How one man fooled some of the world's most knowledgeable wine collectors. It's easy to say they should have spotted the con, now that Rudy Kurniawan has been indicted for fraud. But vanity, greed, credulity can be a powerful brew Comments

Love In A Time Of War

Sean O'Hagan | Observer | 13 May 2012

Story of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and how they changed war photography forever. Radical activists, lovers, chroniclers of Spanish civil war. Both died on assignment. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" Comments

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