{"id":197,"date":"2009-08-08T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-08-08T19:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:17:42","slug":"what-im-reading-8809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2009\/08\/08\/what-im-reading-8809\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8\/8\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Newsweek &#8211; August 10\/17 2009\n<ul>\n<li>Israel&#8217;s Chief Diplomat Goes M.I.A. &#8211; Israel&#8217;s top diplomat takes a trip to South America when Obama&#8217;s Middle East envoy, defense secretary, and national security advisor come to negotiate.  He&#8217;s ultra-right wing and apparently an embarrassment to Israelis.<\/li>\n<li>Iran&#8217;s Widening Fault Lines &#8211; Economic differences between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have the supreme leader reducing the president&#8217;s powers behind the scenes.<\/li>\n<li>No End to Earmarks &#8211; Despite Obama&#8217;s pledge to crack down on earmarks, the practice continues.  Not a surprise to me &#8211; earmarks are a fundamental way to keep in good standing with your constituents and with lobbyists.  What would the Congressional incentive be to stop?<\/li>\n<li>Russia&#8217;s Dry Well &#8211; While the world economy is starting to mend, the damage in Russia will take longer to recover from.  $200 billion in debt, and businesses won&#8217;t be making huge profits in the coming year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New York Times\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/08\/business\/economy\/08jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Job Losses Slow, Signaling Momentum for a Recovery<\/a> &#8211; The panic of this recession begins to subside as the number of eliminated jobs for July drops to 247,000 from a high in January 2009 of 741,000.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/07\/world\/asia\/07pstan.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. and Pakistan Say Taliban Chief is Believed Dead<\/a> &#8211; A drone has taken out the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.\u00a0 The war goes on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/08\/world\/middleeast\/08iran.html\" target=\"_blank\">Conservatives Warn Ahmadinejad Not to Defy Ayatollah on Cabinet Picks<\/a> &#8211; Two days after he is inaugurated, Ahmadinejad is told to stick to the conservative party line.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/08\/business\/media\/08feud.html\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC&#8217;s Olbermann and Fox&#8217;s O&#8217;Reilly Fire Up the Insult Machines Again<\/a> &#8211; Just as I was getting hopeful, two networks disappoint.\u00a0 The battle between personalities continues, while American commentary suffers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/07\/microsofts-sharepoint-thrives-in-the-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\u2019s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession<\/a> &#8211; \u201cSharePoint is saving Microsoft\u2019s Office business even as it paves the way for a new era of Microsoft lock-in,\u201d said Matt Asay, an executive at Alfresco, which makes an open-source content management system. \u201cIt is simultaneously the most interesting and dangerous Microsoft technology, and has largely caught its competitors napping.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Richmond Times Dispatch\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/rtd\/news\/local\/education\/article\/UNIV08_20090807-221801\/284794\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recession Hasn&#8217;t Cut Enrollment for Some Schools<\/a> &#8211; The University of Richmond was aiming for 805 students this fall, an increase from last year&#8217;s 738.\u00a0 We now have 926 first-year students registered for the fall.\u00a0 It turns out other area schools had a similar enrollment experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Guyland<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter 5 &#8211; The Rites of Almost-Men: Binge Drinking, Fraternity Hazing, and the Elephant Walk: College life for young men is described, with one shocking episode after another.\u00a0 I continue to search for a rigorous approach to the subject, but the argument of the book continues without qualification or much quantitative information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Milton among the Philosophers<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter 2: The Life of the Soul: The Cambridge Reaction &#8211; Just getting started with this chapter, which discusses Cudworth and More&#8217;s attempts to justify the ways of atoms to God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek &#8211; August 10\/17 2009 Israel&#8217;s Chief Diplomat Goes M.I.A. &#8211; Israel&#8217;s top diplomat takes a trip to South America when Obama&#8217;s Middle East envoy, defense secretary, and national security advisor come to negotiate. 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