Things Noted Here and There

hmm ... google.com/history sounds like a bad deal, but jsg,"British Library Aims to Preserve E-mails," Spiegal Online, 4 May, reveals what the British Library is trying to do about a problem bothering a lot of us.

Andrew Leonard,"How Portugal Screwed Up Brazil," Salon, 2 May, argues that, first, the"sugar rush" and, then, the"gold rush" exploited the Brazilian economy. Will the"ethanol rush" repeat the cycle? Hat tip.

Walter Laquer,"So Much for the New European Century," CHE, 11 May, is a deeply pessimistic look at the European prospect.

Trevor Butterworth,"Dandy with a Taste for Literary Spats," Financial Times, 4 May, looks at the career of Tom Wolfe, Ph.D., American Studies, Yale. Hat tip.

George Gene Gustines,"When Picasso Went Down to Georgia," NY Times, 6 May, tells a bizarre story of comic books, erections, and criminal prosecution in Rome, [Georgia].

Dafna Linzer,"Teaching Recent History from Opposite Perspectives," Washington Post, 7 May, looks at the tensions between the perspectives of Doug Feith and George Tenet, who are both teaching courses at Georgetown on the run up to 9/11. Still, you'd have to have a fairly narrow frame of reference to think of their perspectives as"opposites".