Caroline Winter | Businessweek | 2 March 2012 "The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't." Says Oliver Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy others. And make billions Comments David Remnick | New Yorker | 5 March 2012 Timely analysis. "As an experiment in Jewish power, unique after two millennia of persecution and exile, Israel has reached an impasse. An intensifying conflict of values has put its democratic nature under tremendous stress" Comments Anonymous | Economist | 3 March 2012 Profile of Jeff Bezos as tech world's alpha-animal after Steve Jobs. "Most importantly, he shares with Mr Jobs an innate understanding of the importance of thinking about high-tech products from the customer’s point of view" Comments Sam Knight | FT | 2 March 2012 Absorbing view of a university lab where the quantitative analysts of the future train. Their algorithms will underpin financial trades, perhaps even future crises. This is where advanced computing, big data and money collides Comments Martin Sixsmith | LA Review of Books | 4 March 2012 Former BBC correspondent considers recent Russian history. Like many, he got the 1991 coup and Yeltsin years wrong. "I’d forgotten the lesson of history, that in Russia, attempts at reform are followed by a return to autocracy" Comments John Steinbeck | Letters Of Note | 29 February 2012 "There you are, Pat. You came in with a box of glory and there you stand with an armful of damp garbage." Steinbeck writes to his editor on the completion of East of Eden. About the frustrations of dealing with editors Comments | 
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