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 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 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 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 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 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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