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Sundown: Strauss-Kahn for the Silver Screen

Plus the Assad emails, we off Drake? and more

by
Marc Tracy
March 14, 2012
Gérard Depardieu.(Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
Gérard Depardieu.(Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

DSK, c’est Depardieu. [Le Monde]

• We have a bunch of Bashar Assad’s emails. Shockingly, Iran has been giving him tips on how to suppress Syria’s uprising. [Guardian]

• A Muslim Tunisian man in Paris set his daughter on fire for seeing a Jewish boy. [Heeb]

• /shakes head at Drake. [GQ]

• Federation’s William Daroff may have shocked Austin with his win in a Nokia-sponsored social media competition, but certainly denizens of Jewish Twitter were unsurprised. [Nokia]

• Anyone want to buy a totally awesome alternative newspaper? [Poynter]

Happy Pi Day! Here’s what Einstein had to say about it. And here’s two Jews talking about π with a computer.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.