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'American Horror Story': Which Season 1 Stars Are Returning?

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Daily Newsletter       3 March 2012  Best of the Moment The Wrath Of Putin Masha Gessen | Vanity Fair | 2 March 2012 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin. He was convicted in two Kafka-esque trials and remains in prison. This terrific piece charts the two men's clash Comments The Power Of Habit Charles Duhigg | Slate | 28 February 2012 Fascinating history of toothpaste (!) and American advertising executive Claude C Hopkins. A man who unwittingly discovered the three essentials of how to make people form habits: The cue, the routine and the reward Comments Europe Invents The Gypsies Klaus-Michael Bogdal | Eurozine | 24 February 2012 "Might not the history of the Roma, a group marginalised like none other, reveal a less auspicious aspect of Europe's grand narrative of modernity?" Good question to kick off this historical analysis of European attitudes to gypsies Comments The End Of Labour? Colin Kidd | London Review Of Books | 29 February 2012 The Scottish question. In different ways, puts both Labour and Conservatives in a difficult position. Tories must handle referendum and possible break-up of UK. But Labour faces longer term threat of exclusion from power Comments On The Market Alice Gregory | n+1 | 1 March 2012 Notes from a year spent working as a junior at Sotheby's in New York. "Paintings with red in them usually sell for more than paintings without red in them. Warhol’s women are worth more, on average, than Warhol’s men" Comments Great Catherine's Many Dimensions Richard Wortman | National Interest | 28 February 2012 Fine essay reviewing Robert Massie book on Catherine the Great. "Her unremitting sexual appetites became a way to acquire intelligent and energetic devotees upon whom she could rely in the snake pit of the Russian court" Comments  FiveBooks Interview Martin Bell on Reportage and War The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him about the reality of conflict than any other writing  Featured Special Report How To Die How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's help? Or naturally?  Reader Recommendations @polit2k RT @baselinescene: House Republicans: Making the United States More Like Greece, #whburningpreview t.co/uKdpvMcV #gfc2 #browsings  Book of the Day The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Jonathan Evison says: “It’s an amazingly powerful story of people trying to reinvent themselves in an environment that was stacked very much against them”  Video of the Day 2012 Hyundai Azera: Modern Life Yes, wasn't that a nice commercial. But can you name the director?  Quote of the Day EF Schumacher, on progress "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes genius to move in the opposite direction" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF

Politics: Twilight of the Voting Rights Act

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Politics Twilight of the Voting Rights Act Obama doesn't want a landmark civil rights law to die on his watch—so he's letting it wither away. By Will Oremus Posted Thursday, Mar 01, 2012, at 12:30 PM ET When Georgia's Republican leaders redrew the state's election-district maps last year, Democrats and minorities instantly cried foul. In an increasingly diverse state where 47 percent of voters chose Obama in 2008, the new maps looked likely to hand the GOP 10 of the state's 14 seats in Congress. Perhaps even more significantly, they were drawn so as to give Republicans a shot at a two-thirds majority in both chambers of the state legislature, allowing them to pass constitutional amendments unilaterally. They achieved this in part by "packing" the state's black voters (who overwhelmingly vote Democratic) into a handful of districts in order to make others more solidly white (and Republican). Fortunately for the state's Democrats, federal law seemed to offer a time-tested remedy. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark civil rights bill passed in 1965 to crack down on poll taxes and other discriminatory practices, requires Georgia and a number of other Southern states to get federal approval for any changes to their voting laws. Any that harmed minorities' chances of fair representation were to be thrown out. And that's exactly what Georgia Democrats expected Obama's Department of Justice to do with Republicans' new maps. Just two years earlier, it had invoked Section 5 to block two Georgia voter-verification laws. Liberals gleefully predicted the Republican gerrymanders would likewise be "DOA at the DOJ." The Republicans held a trump card, however: the threat of a lawsuit challenging the Voting Rights Act ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate When Did Douche Become an Insult? Yglesias: The Overlooked Data That Show the Economy Is Back on Track During the Fukushima Crisis, Japan Considered Evacuating Tokyo. Were Things Really That Bad?	Advertisement
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Arts: This Picture Is Worth 20 Words, Name That Runway Look Editon

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Brow Beat This Picture Is Worth 20 Words: Name That Runway Look Edition By Heather Murphy Posted Friday, Mar 02, 2012, at 11:23 PM ET Welcome back to Slate's caption contest. In honor of Paris Fashion Week, we've decided to switch it up a little this week. Your task is to name the runway look below. As always, keep it to fewer than 20 words. Last Week's Contest Winner: ganmerlad Focus group studies found that wearing an elephant costume made Newt more 'likeable'. Runner-up 1:  Dan Howard "... So, kids, that's why Mr. Elephant wanted an 'open herd relationship'..." Actual caption:  Callista Gingrich, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, reads to children at Chaparral Elementary School Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Gilbert, Ariz.  (Evan Vucci/AP) To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate When Did Douche Become an Insult? Yglesias: The Overlooked Data That Show the Economy Is Back on Track During the Fukushima Crisis, Japan Considered Evacuating Tokyo. Were Things Really That Bad?	Advertisement
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Moneybox: It?s Halftime in America ? and We?re Winning

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Moneybox It's Halftime in America … and We're Winning The overlooked data that reveal the economy is bouncing back. By Matthew Yglesias Posted Friday, Mar 02, 2012, at 10:11 PM ET The American economy's been in bad shape for a long time. Normally after a recession you get a quick bounce-back recovery—real long-term economic growth is hard, but putting a bunch of unemployed workers back to work is, relatively speaking, easy. But instead of a catch-up recovery we spent 2010 and most of 2011 suffering from sluggish growth. Even before suffering though the deepest recession in postwar history, we had just ambled through the weakest period of growth on record. In retrospect, the boom economy of the late 1990s seemed less like the dawning of a New Economy and more like a brief bubble-driven vacation from decades of despair. For the past 18 months, everyone's been hatching pet ideas about what ails us. Technology is advancing too slowly—or maybe it's too quickly. (My entry into the genre will be published next week.) All of that, however, obscures that the short-term picture is finally looking bright. Everyone knows the past couple of months' worth of jobs data have been pretty good, but two relatively obscure data points released this week confirm that growth will be the hot new trend this spring. Let's start with theory. There are so many numbers out there that it's easy to get lost in the fog. The fundamental case for growth in 2012 remains what I laid out last December. Normally, the Federal Reserve cures recessions with low interest rates. Mathematically speaking, to cure a very deep recession you need ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate When Did Douche Become an Insult? Yglesias: The Overlooked Data That Show the Economy Is Back on Track During the Fukushima Crisis, Japan Considered Evacuating Tokyo. Were Things Really That Bad?	Advertisement
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Cheat Sheet - Is Romney Back on Top for Good?

Today: Syria Blocks Red Cross Entry , Obama: 'I Don't Bluff' on Iran , Birth Control Advocate Sandra Fluke Isn’t Scared of Rush Limbaugh March 02, 2012 SUPER TUESDAY 1. Is Romney Back on Top for Good? MA new poll shows that Mitt Romney has regained most of the ground against Rick Santorum in Ohio-a state that's going to the polls on Super Tuesday next week. He's trailing only 35 to 31 percent in a state where he was losing by double digits just last month. The candidate is looking better and better after his Michigan and Arizona wins this week, and he could be back on top for good, as a different poll shows him way ahead in Virginia also, another big Super Tuesday state. Read it at Quinnipiac University AID 2. Syria Blocks Red Cross Syrian forces blocked a Red Cross convoy from entering Baba Amr, the besieged neighborhood in Homs, on Friday, despite having granted them approval to bring much-needed aid to the region 24 hours earlier. In a statement, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was "unacceptable" that aid was being denied and said convoys were staying put with the hope of entering "in the very near future." Meanwhile, activists said Syrian troops were searching houses and conducting execution-style killings. The rebel-run Free Syrian Army began withdrawal from Homs on Thursday, and the Syrian military had since declared the area "cleansed" of "foreign-backed armed groups of terrorists." Read it at Reuters POTUS 3. Obama: 'I Don't Bluff' Days before his upcoming talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama warned that the U.S. could take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. "I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don't bluff," Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, emphasizing that he will try to persuade Netanyahu, whom he is meeting in Washington on Monday, to postpone any plans of a preemptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. He stressed that the U.S.-Israel strategy will be to convince Iran to "take [nuclear weapons] off the table" in an effort to solve the nuke issue "permanently, as opposed to temporarily." But he will reassure Netanyahu that, under his leadership, the U.S. "has Israel's back" and that he will consider military action if economic sanctions don't force Tehran to shelve its nuclear ambitions. Read it at The Atlantic CONTRACEPTION 4. Advocate Sandra Fluke Blasts Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, the law student pilloried as a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh for testifying in favor of access to birth control, tells Allison Yarrow in an interview that she won't stop fighting-and she has Obama's support. Read it at The Daily Beast STRIKING DISTANCE 5. Israel to Test Missiles Israel has announced that it has plans to test the advanced Arrow 3 missile system in coming weeks, adding to talk about a possible future conflict with Iran as President Barack Obama prepares for a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu declared that Israel reserved “the right to defend ourselves against a country that calls and works for our destruction.” All eyes in Israel are on Iran’s developing nuclear program, and speculation that Israel may stage a preemptive strike on Iran’s facilities has increased. Whether or not America will be on board for military action will likely be a top issue at the meeting. Netanyahu was meeting Friday with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Read it at Reuters REMORSE Bush Aide Sorry for Antigay Push 2004 campaign manager has regrets. SEVERE WEATHER Tornadoes Tear Through Alabama As storms continue sweeping the South. SCANDAL Three May Sue Murdoch in U.S. Would be first domestic cases against News Corp. FASHION Bashing Women on the Paris Runways At Paris’s Fall 2012 Fashion Week, some designers offer little in the way of respect for their female customers. OH THE PLACES Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! Fans celebrate writer’s 108th birthday. 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. Tomasky: Mitt by Michael Tomasky Sepkowitz: Ted Talks by Kent Sepkowitz Sykes: Harry by Tom Sykes

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