Lunch with the FT: Larry Summers

Source: Financial Times
Published: Jul 10, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,147 words)

She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It

Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service.

Author: Frank Rich
Published: Jul 11, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,553 words)

Bon Jovi’s faces seen vs. faces rocked, ca. 1986: two views

Source: Laaazlo
Published: Jan 31, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,192 words)

We Are All Writers Now

Go back 20, 30 years and you will find all of us doing more talking than writing. We rued literacy levels and worried over whether all this phone-yakking and television-watching spelled the end of writing. Few make that claim today. I would hazard that, with more than 200m people on Facebook, and even more with home internet access, we are all writing more than we would have ten years ago.

Source: Economist
Published: Jun 26, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,061 words)

Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?

Source: New Scientist
Published: Jul 8, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,643 words)

A New General, and a New War, in Afghanistan

Source: Time
Published: Jul 10, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,643 words)

What’s Next For Michael Vick?

The disgraced quarterback has already paid a greater price for his crime than most wayward athletes.

Published: Jul 13, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,398 words)

The Case for Doing Nothing

The only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination.

Source: Reason
Published: Aug 28, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,163 words)

Sisters Face Death With Dignity and Reverence

Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn, 87, readied herself to die in the nursing wing of the Sisters of St. Joseph convent where she has been a member since she was a teenager.

Author: Jane Gross
Published: Jul 8, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,759 words)

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Review of ‘Bruno’

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 20, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,668 words)