Apparently there wasn't enough disorder in The Battle of the Crater as interpreted by historians Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, so they took their historical novel so-titled and re-titled it as To Make Men Free. Whatever. The book takes its original title from an attempt by the Army of the Potomac to end the siege of Petersburg by undermining a critical fort and dropping it into a pit. The new title probably refers to the prominent role of United States Colored Troops in preparing for the follow-on attack.
Book Review No. 15 will refer to the work as Battle, as it was by that title that I bought and read the hardback version. I wonder if the book serves more as an allegory of Washington intrigue than as military history, no matter the title on the cover. The usual maxim in military matters has a thousand fathers for victory, but the failure of the plan to drop the fort is clearly not an orphan: senior generals and senior engineers and more than a few quartermasters were involved. I'm not conversant enough with the eastern campaigns to recommend a good analysis of the Battle of the Crater for comparison purposes. Fortunately for the Union effort, the Confederacy was losing the war faster than the Federals could win it, with the failure at the Crater being followed almost immediately by the surrender of Atlanta.
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The plan, viewed as highly unorthodox by analysts, involves Madrid issuing Spanish government guaranteed debt to Bankia in return for equity, with the bank then able to deposit the bonds with European Central Bank as collateral for cash.
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But the admission by Madrid that borrowing in the capital markets is too expensive – and the use of the ECB to temporarily fund at least part of its bank rescue plan – surprised analysts.
“This is very cheeky – the ECB executives are going to be furious,” said one analyst.
This might be the closest thing to printing Euros that Spain can do, by basically forcing the ECB to print the money to finance the bailout.
Not so bad, Spain.
...adding, the point is that there's a relatively zero cost way to plug the financial holes. Free money! Central banks can do that. I'd prefer giving people free money instead of banks - you can even can do both simultaneously, by canceling debts with free money! - but this bit of sneaky at least is more in the "free money" direction.
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Automakers say they are concerned too, but that hasn’t stopped them from connecting smartphones to in-dash systems and putting Internet-based information into so-called connected cars for 2013. While some Web-based apps offer features similar to those already available in traditional car stereo systems, like the streaming music service Pandora, newer offerings will let drivers order movie tickets, scroll through restaurant reviews and even check Facebook updates.
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But the real issue here is that this subject should not interest me at all. I should have no concerns about whether JP Morgan is winning money, losing money, or anything else. That this actually does concern you, me, and all of us, is a tremendous problem.
That Starcrossed book that I liked (though I had some issues with the sequel) is currently on sale at Amazon.
From the NYT:
On a trip that Mr. Waters said took him eight days and about 15 hitchhiked rides to get him from one end of the country to the other, he has accumulated numerous anecdotes for a book he has tentatively titled “Carsick” and which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
If I'd been one of the lucky 15 to have picked him up, I'd totally have driven him as far as he wanted...
...then again, that probably would have made for a less interesting book.
ETA: Josh says that he'd have brought him home like a stray animal. "Honey! I found a John Waters on the side of the road!"
I'm not going to get all worried about the possibility—I doubt very much it'll happen.
Anyway, I'm still rooting for Jesse Williams.
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