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  1. Richard Dorment on a chance to see nine major old master paintings that rarely travel http://tumblr.com/x297bxvk2
  2. RT @walteralarkon: Must-read: New York profiles Tony Judt. Muster-read: Judt's "Postwar." http://bit.ly/90fzqA
  3. Girls! Girls! Girls! Tony Judt on the tolling bell of sexual correctness http://bit.ly/aMliBC
  4. "The Way to Stop Prison Rape": second of two articles by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow of @JustDetention http://bit.ly/apkEb1
  5. The enigma of Mme de Maintenon, Louis XIV's secret wife: sweet, pious woman and unscrupulous, scheming hypocrite http://bit.ly/dx9MOK
  6. Whatever else you might say about John Yoo, he's not embarrassed by the condemnation of his peers. http://bit.ly/aM5nqW
  7. Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities by Anthony Grafton http://bit.ly/bLtMPZ
  8. KieranTimberlake’s winning design for a new US embassy in London is a fortress, gussied up with green details http://bit.ly/amZHjz
  9. "The architectural equivalent of body armor underneath a seersucker suit." Martin Filler on the new US embassy http://bit.ly/amZHjz
  10. Can Viktor Yanukovych, who once stole coats and once stole votes, bring the rule of law to Ukraine? http://bit.ly/9Bjrxj
  11. Kashmir: "The World's Most Dangerous Place" — Pankaj Mishra on the conflict and growing arms race http://bit.ly/d2RakF
  12. "The Wizard": Daniel Mendelsohn on Avatar http://bit.ly/bP6lbK
  13. And you can follow the Dalai Lama: @dalailama
  14. Robert Barnett on the signs and symbolism of the Dalai Lama's White House visit http://bit.ly/aGxW4L
  15. Hakawati Self-Portraits: a slide show of images by Rabih Alameddine http://bit.ly/dmrxr5
  16. Mary Beard on Hadrian, Antinous, and ancient heroism http://bit.ly/cQv5E3
  17. Cathleen Schine on Jane Austen's "wonderfully quotidian, idiosyncratic, exuberant, dilatory" letters http://bit.ly/9EULsE
  18. Himmler's Favorite Jew: Ian Buruma on the 1940 Nazi propaganda film Jew Süss http://bit.ly/c9eYTm
  19. Jonathan Raban: At the Tea Party http://bit.ly/bxOkqo
  20. "Moody New York": a slide show of photographs from 1940 to 1959 http://tumblr.com/x296xziv7