Jaycee Dugard's Own Account of 18 Years as a Hostage
“A normal morning violently interrupted. Day after day of fear, sexual assault and loneliness. A desperate striving for normalcy in depraved surroundings.”
Are we bound to repeat “The Mistake of 1937” with “The Mistake of 2010” - Krugman
“Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the “mistake of 1937,” the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post’s author (with whom I have done research) points out, economic conditions today — with output growing, some prices rising, but unemployment still very high — bear a strong resemblance to those in 1936-37. So are modern policy makers going to make the same mistake?” - Paul Krugman
Jill Abramson's task at the New York Times
“Its first female editor takes over a newspaper that has admirably embraced digital media, but can expect no respite from change.”
“One of Abramson’s pre-coronation duties was a “web immersion” tour. Cynics might point out that this was cut short , and four months’ observation does not a “digital native” make. Abramson’s task will be increasingly digitally focused as the print circulation of the New York Times will inevitably continue to decline.”
Kentucky Grad Hits The Big Buck
“Little about Alex DerHohannesian suggests “video game champion.” A virile 30-year-old television producer, he lives on the Upper West Side, starred on the club hockey team at the University of Kentucky and bears a strong resemblance to Ryan Gosling.
But his friends know him as DerHo, one of the world’s best players of Big Buck Hunter, an arcade hunting game that enjoys a rabid following among trendy urbanites who most likely have never held a gun.” - New York Times
Ms. Orlean, the author of “The Orchid Thief” and a “cultural biography” of Rin Tin Tin scheduled for release later this year, was eager to talk about her newest project: a combination of her lifelong obsession with animals and her more recent side job as a technology fanatic. “Animalish,” an essay in e-book form, will be published on Thursday exclusively by Amazon as one of its Kindle Singles, snippets of original, long-form writing in both fiction and nonfiction.
