Lisa Miller | The Cut | 7 October 2012 Big profile of new Yahoo boss, and mother. "Mayer was fully girl and fully geek, a former ballet dancer who stayed up all night writing code. And one who seemed driven to make her own path when the men around her wouldn't oblige" Comments Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 9 October 2012 Fizzing denunciation of Mitt Romney's foreign policy ideas. If pursued, they'd bankrupt the country and cause more backlash and terrorism. People outside the US admire its democracy, rule of law; they hate its military hubris Comments Wendy Ruderman | NYT | 5 October 2012 At work with NYPD's emergency services department. Officers trained in suicide rescue. They talk jumpers down from bridges. Brooklyn Bridge is "forgiving". Serious suicides go for the Verrazano. Nobody survives that fall Comments Jessica Levine | Atlantic | 5 October 2012 In an undemocratic country, people have limited means of getting information, let alone redress. But the Internet is providing ways that China's citizens can fight back against corruption and public power – flesh searching Comments Ed Vulliamy | Observer | 6 October 2012 An audience with the blues star back in Mississippi where he worked in the cotton fields as a child. "I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done" Comments Mary Elizabeth Williams | Salon | 2 October 2012 Support group for children of cancer-sufferers. Sounds like a comforting idea; then the death-toll starts rising. "Frankie, we learned, would be transitioning into the children’s bereavement group." Even so, the kids like it Comments | 
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