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What You Missed While You Were Refreshing Drudge and FiveThirtyEight

The biggest show in politics is over, the billions are spent, little has changed. Time to refocus. Let’s reframe our attention to all the other equally and more important developments worldwide. That’s exactly what this article from Foreign Policy is about. While the article is clearly directed at American readers, let’s not fool ourselves: We, too, have been overly focused on the US of A over the past few months.

From Weekly Filet #91, in November 2012.

    Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was

    Forget about Stig Larsson, this is a real Skandinavian crime thriller. Thomas Quick was Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, having confessed to more than 30 murders. Until, well until a documentary filmer took a closer look and found that no evidence linked Quick to any of those murders. Quick had simply fooled the police and judges. But why? Read the piece, and you’ll know. Great read.

    From Weekly Filet #90, in November 2012.

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