To cheer him up, Claudia reads the old baron another excerpt from Inge's diary and we're back in 1864.
Here's an excerpt from the briefing note sent out by the party.
In an excerpt released by Brand on Tuesday, Miliband said many voters shared his outrage over multinationals who use complicated tax arrangements to minimise the amounts they pay, and assured him: "We've got to deal with that".
Here's an excerpt - Wong on Gillard and the gender question.
Bin Laden says nothing in the excerpt broadcast yesterday but al-Zawahiri, his Egyptian deputy and mentor, hails September 11 as a triumph, in the most direct al-Qaida claim of responsibility seen so far.
That said, I did like the excerpt from former Gladiator David's personal website that featured in the various reports on the matter.
Here's an excerpt of his email: I am a researcher based at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University and have been working on northern Uganda since 2009.
IF YOU were as intrigued as I was by the mention of retired General James Jones on Barack Obama's short-ish list of vice-presidential candidates, then it's worth reading this excerpt (via Noam Scheiber) from Bob Woodward's "State of Denial".
An excerpt from "This Bitter Earth" (2005), made when he served as resident choreographer there, is also included in "21st Century" and is movingly lyrical.But it is Justin Peck's "Everywhere We Go" (pictured) that is most exciting.
(Dallas Fed, via Mark Thoma) Long, but worthwhile read of the day the first: Ryan Lizza profiles Larry Summers (New Yorker) Long, but worthwhile read of the day the second: Vanity Fair publishes an (extensive) excerpt from Andrew Ross Sorkin's forthcoming book on the crisis.
An excerpt from his best selling book of 1820 gives a flavour of the antiquarian practices of the time:Surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror.
