Leslie Gelb | National Interest | 22 August 2012 Generally friendly essay critiquing US foreign policy under President Obama. He avoided big errors. Handled tactical challenges fairly well. But he's lacked strategic thinking, and doesn't understand interplay of strategy and power Comments Anonymous | Playboy | 20 August 2012 And this month's centrefold is... Britain's atheist-in-chief. If only. "I think a particular god like Zeus or Jehovah is as unlikely as the tooth fairy, but the idea of some kind of creative intelligence is not quite so ridiculous" Comments David Conn | London Review Of Books | 22 August 2012 How English football became a business. Superb overview from 1980s to present day. Key moment was creation of the Premier League in 1992, a money grab by the big clubs that cut funding from the rest of football Comments Miguel Angel Garcia Vega | El País | 20 August 2012 "The euro zone was put together along the lines of a lobster trap: Easy to get in, but very difficult to get out." Which is a worry for companies across the region, who now feel they need to prepare for a break-up. But how? Comments Maria Bustillos | New Yorker | 21 August 2012 Short fat alcoholic. Died at 33. Finest rock critic of his generation. Prose stylist. On Mick Jagger: "A spastic flap-lipped tornado writhing from here to a million steaming snatches and beyond in one undifferentiated mass" Comments Stephen Moss | Guardian | 21 August 2012 "Climbing the ladders between decks exhausts me; I am forever hitting my head on protruding bits of metal; and once in the control room, while leaning against the periscope, I stumble backwards and accidentally press a button" Comments | 
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