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Note To Our Readers: RSS Feeds | Robert Cottrell | The Browser | 28 March 2013

The Browser — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:06:01 +0000

As part of our move to a new platform and new hosting today, we are consolidating our RSS feeds into a one full feed, to which you can subscribe at this address (if it's not live now it will be soon): http://thebrowser.com/feed

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Anthony Lewis — The Paul Krugman Of His Time | Michael Kinsley | New Republic | 26 March 2013

The Browser — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:15:41 +0000

Short, sweet obituary note for Anthony Lewis, who "more or less invented Supreme Court coverage". NYT columnist "back when being a Times columnist was not unlike being a Supreme Court justice in terms of prestige, tenure, exclusivity and supporting infrastructure". Relentless critic of Vietnam war: "You read him twice a week to top up on fury"

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Derrida: The Excluded Favorite | Emily Eakin | New York Review Of Books | 25 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:00:32 +0000

Good, clear primer on Derrida's life and thought. "Derrida sought to show that speech is inextricable from writing, no more or less authentic. The difference between the two depends, as all differences do, on a process of enforced absence or repression: a is a only because it is not b, and thus b is never entirely out of the picture"

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Boris Berezovsky, 1946-2013 | Keith Gessen | n+1 | 25 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:48:31 +0000

An appreciation — if that is the right word — of the dead Russian oligarch. Berezovsky was "a man who had been given a magnificent mind, and limitless energy, and who devoted these, primarily, to destruction, speculation, and manipulation". He was, in his way, enthralling. But he profited from, and encouraged, a lawlessness that ruined his country

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Lee Buchheit, Fairy Godmother To Finance Ministers | Josephine Moulds | Guardian | 12 March 2013

The Browser — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:33:43 +0000

Interview with world's top negotiator of sovereign debt restructurings, who says it's more fun to act for borrowers. "If you represent the lender, your client is tiresomely saying things to you like: Why don't they just pay us the money back? When you're on the debtor side, you can say: If you want to get it back, why did you give it to us?"

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Obituary: Allan Calhamer | Anonymous | Telegraph | 12 March 2013

The Browser — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:55:48 +0000

Inventor of Diplomacy board game. Harvard scholar. Contemporary of Kissinger. Later park ranger at the Statue of Liberty, postman in Illinois, "an amiably eccentric man who enjoyed working out the prime factors of car number plates he passed on his rounds". Never much good at his own game, because he was "too nice"

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Obituary: Harry Stamps | Anonymous | Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Home | 11 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:12:45 +0000

"He had a life-long love affair with deviled eggs, Lane cakes, boiled peanuts, Vienna sausages on saltines, homemade canned fig preserves, pork chops, turnip greens, and buttermilk served in martini glasses garnished with cornbread. He excelled at growing camellias, rebuilding houses after hurricanes, rocking and composting pine needles"

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Garry Wills: The American Mind | Sam Tanenhaus | Prospect | 11 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:28:12 +0000

"He is America’s best living explainer, exposing the nation’s most cherished myths, which he approaches in the manner of a holy blasphemer ... An invaluable guide to the modern United States, connecting the present, in all its strangeness, to the imprisoning history, the patterns of behaviour unchanged since the earliest days of the Republic"

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A Fusion Of Piano And Cerebellum | Normal Lebrecht | Standpoint | 04 March 2013

The Browser — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:56:49 +0000

Note in memory of Charles Rosen. "Charles was the epitome of the philosopher-pianist, a hybrid species that risks extinction with his passing and which deserves more concentrated attention than he himself accorded it, and in much shorter sentences. So there." But there are still some like him: Daniel Barenboim; Steven Hough; Jeremy Denk

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Chavez To Eternity | Ivan Briscoe | Open Democracy | 06 March 2013

The Browser — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:11:44 +0000

Sympathetic, well-informed assessment of Venezuelan leader's record and legacy. "The changes Chávez established were not of systems but of personnel; those who were poor, mestizo or excluded have entered power, but in the process have not managed to change the way power works, nor the circuits of patronage and dependence it relies upon"

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