This week for BuzzReads, the first Michael Hastings Fellow, Gregory Johnsen, reports on the most dangerous sentence in U.S. history. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
60 Words And A War Without End — BuzzFeed
Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Here’s how it came to be. Read it at BuzzFeed.
John Gara for BuzzFeed
A Dangerous Mind — New York
Dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" by the media, former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle was arrested and tried for chatting online about planning to kill — and eat — his wife, and others. Robert Kolker asks: What's more disturbing? The things he supposedly planned to do, or that a man could be culpable for what he merely described? Read it at New York.
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The Writer and the Puzzle — Sports Illustrated
S.L. Price remembers the late, great Richard Ben Cramer: "in his prime, there seemed no subject or story that Cramer could not crack." He discusses the coincidence that the month the journalist passed away one year ago, the truth about A-Rod, a scoop he'd chased but couldn't break, finally came out. Read it at Sports Illustrated.
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The Winning Formula — Wired UK
A look at how big data has transformed Premier League football: "Each has its own team of performance analysts and data scientists ... They are scientists dissecting the world's most popular game, looking at data from Prozone and other sources to understand what dictates the difference between winning and losing." Read it at Wired UK.
Liam Sharp for Wired UK
