Sun, sex and the dark side of The Med

Independent - Thousands of young Brits flock to the Greek islands each year in search of sun, sex and serious drinking. But as Charlotte Philby finds out, there’s a darker underbelly to the revelry.

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Carla is the hunter, not the hunted

Vanity Fair - Just months after his May 2007 election, French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced growing criticism over his stalled reforms, flashy style, and stormy divorce. The last straw should have been his whirlwind remarriage, to an Italian heiress, ex-model, and singer who had past liaisons with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, [...]

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Alcohol tax leads to surge in personal imports from Estonia

Helsingin Sanomat - Personal imports of alcoholic beverages from abroad has grown significantly since the rise in alcohol taxation at the beginning of the year. In the first four months of 2008 imports by passengers had grown by about ten per cent over the same time in 2007. The trend continued in [...]

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Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?

O’Reilly Radar - Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that “over time, Wall Street ‘firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers.’” [...]

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Classifying French wine in the age of globalization

IHT, by Edward Lewine - Things have not been easy for Guy-Petrus Lignac since February 2007, when he and eight other vineyard owners filed an infamous lawsuit that rattled the global market for Bordeaux wine and set the normally peaceful village of St. Émilion at war with itself. “He’s a good friend of [...]

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The internet shrinks your brain? What rubbish

Times - Of course, what all three of my Jeremiahs entirely miss about the internet is its quality of engagement. That’s what makes the new era so much better than the television age.

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The Columbia Journalism Review’s Division Over Dissent

Slate - When does dissent become Untruth and lose the rights and respect due to “legitimate dissent”? Who decides—and how—what dissent deserves to be heard and what doesn’t? When do journalists have to “protect” readers from Untruth masking itself as dissent or skepticism?

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