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An über language for the Zeitgeist

From The Observer, a special report on the financial crisis: Reasons to be fearful. Iceland’s banking collapse is the biggest, relative to the size of an economy, that any country has ever suffered; there are lessons to be learnt beyond its shores. An interview with Eileen Myles, author of The Importance of Being Iceland. An uber language for the Zeitgeist: Seen from the other end of the dictionary the increasing use of German words in English is a surprise. I believe because it’s impossible: Memories lie because they build on memories; photographs lie more convincingly because they offer proof. Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images. Twilight of the color photo: As printed snapshots vanish, we're losing more than shoe boxes full of mementos. Alan Brinkley on learning from FDR's mistakes. Here are the five rules that make college football great. With his reputation for romanticism and rambling and his love of gossip, Herodotus was dismissed by the serious thinkers of his day , yet his work is both entertaining and deeply moral. A review of Keith Yellin's Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership. A review of Sex, Drugs & Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure by Paul Martin. More on Hubert's Freaks by Gregory Gibson.