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- Form And Fortune | Evgeny Morozov | New Republic | 22 February 2012 23/02/2012http://b.rw/y3RAEA Best review yet of Isaacson's "Jobs". Maybe even better than the book. Full of good stuff on Apple's design and marketing, its debt to the Bauhaus. Makes the case that, for once, "corporate philosophy" is not too strong a term More about this article […]
- Being Strong | Vladimir Putin | Foreign Policy | 21 February 2012 23/02/2012http://b.rw/ywMcuC Putin in his own words. And nuanced they are not. "We should not tempt anyone by allowing ourselves to be weak. We have adopted and are implementing unprecedented programmes to develop our armed forces" More about this article […]
- Too Big To Jail | Simon Johnson | Project Syndicate | 22 February 2012 23/02/2012http://b.rw/whOsoX "The message to bank executives today is simple: Build your bank to be as big as possible – and then keep growing. If you manage to become big enough, you and your employees are not just too big to fail, but also too big to jail" More about this article […]
- Passports... For A Price | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | Reuters | 12 February 2012 23/02/2012http://b.rw/zIOHKx Troubled by tax rates, legal issues, instability in your home country? For the modest consideration of $250,000 you can become a citizen of St Kitts and Nevis. Without even setting foot there. Austria comes a little more expensive More about this article […]
- The Great American Novel | Roger Kimball | Weekly Standard | 22 February 2012 23/02/2012http://b.rw/y3a5D9 There are plenty of good novels being published in America. Probably as many as ever in the past. But no great novels, and there probably never will again. Because the novel no longer occupies a central place in American culture More about this article […]