Thursday, June 2, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, June 2, 2011)
(1)- STRAUSS-KAHN DOWNFALL -- France is in shock and the IMF is in turmoil: the head of the fund, expected by many to be his country’s next president, is accused of attempted rape.

(2)- HALF OF US ARE FINANCIALLY FRAGILE -- Nearly half of Americans say that they definitely or probably couldn’t come up with $2,000 in 30 days, according to new research, raising concerns about the financial fragility of many households.

(3)- INSIDE AL JAZEERA -- Nothing prepared us for what we saw happening across the Arab world this year. One network knew damn well how to report a revolution. Michael Paterniti takes us behind the cameras at Al Jazeera.

(4)- TRIALS -- This is a story you’ve read a thousand times and will a thousand times again, first as tragedy, perhaps, but forever after as farce. You can read it in the papers each day or watch it on the news at night.

(5)- LEGAL WRIT -- In a trove of interviews, eight Supreme Court justices described how they write their opinions, what they look for in briefs and the art of legal writing generally.

(6)- THE BAFFLER IS BACK -- Over two celebrated decades, The Baffler acquired a reputation for being a small-circulation journal with an outsize knack for skewering the powers that be. It closed in 2010. Now there’s new ownership.

(7)- FINALLY CORRECTING – it's not too late to set the record straight. If journalism is history's first draft, there is always time to revise, polish and perfect, even if the details turn out to be less than straightforward.

(8)- OOOOPS! -- Police are trying to trace the owner of a life-sized tiger toy which sparked a major police alert in Hampshire over fears a real animal was on the loose.

(9)- ART MONEY TURNAROUND -- The stupendous price of ($106.17 million)fetched by Giacometti’s “L’Homme qui marche 1” at Sotheby’s recently was seen by dealers as signalling a dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of the art market.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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