Ivy League grade inflation 常春藤联盟分数贬值 Grade expectations 分数期望 An A is not what it used to be A等分数今非昔比,光芒褪色 WE DO not release statistics on grade-point averages so we can't speak to the accuracy of the

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Cameron Todd Willingham 卡梅伦陶德威廉汉姆 Irrevocable 无法改变 Texas may well have killed an innocent man得克萨斯可能杀死了一名无辜者 Was the real villain a faulty wire? 真正的罪魁祸首是一根故障电线? ON THE

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Finance and economic: Free exchange: Better than a wall 财经:自由交换:美墨两国的经济隔阂比墙还厚 Understanding NAFTA, a disappointing but under-appreciated trade deal. 理解北美自由贸易协定一个令人失望而又被低估

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The sniping is unfair. 这样的指责其实是不公正的。 Unexpected shocks prevented the deal from reaching its full potential. 意想不到的危机使得这份协定没办法充分展示其潜力。 Both the peso crisis of 1994-95 and the glo

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Business: Hospitality Stay with me 商业:酒店业,别离开我 As online rivals whizz ahead, hotels try to be both big and nimble. 眼看网络竞争对手飕飕前进,各酒店力求变得大而灵活。 HOTEL companies check out well just n

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Europe French taxation 欧洲 法国税收 A bas les riches! 对富人的严厉打击 Francois Hollande remains intent on introducing a punishing top income-tax 弗朗索瓦奥朗德继续致力推行严厉的富人税 As Socialist candidate for the

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Non-bank finance in Europe 欧洲非银行金融机构 Embracing the alternatives 采用新方法 Banks are changing. That means other providers of capital must step forward, especially in Europe 银行有变,资本家须出手,尤其是向欧洲

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Finance and Economics 财经 Free exchange 自由交流 Better, stronger, faster 更好、更强、更快 Labour-monitoring technologies raise efficiencyand hard questions. 劳动力监督技术在提高效率的同时也带来种种难题。 Bosses

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Economic data 经济数据 Peeking early 先人一步,偷瞄一眼 A continuing kerfuffle over releases of privately sourced data 私人发布的数据持续引发热议 DATA releases stir emotions as well as movi

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Reforming Leviathan 处于改革浪潮中的庞大机构 Mandarin lessons 政府官员的经验之谈 Governments need to rethink how they reward and motivate civil servants 政府需要重新思考如何去奖励和提升公务员的工作动力。

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Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising Americas health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗? ALTHOUGH most rich countries, an

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French defence sales 法国国防交易 Mistral blows 兜售西北风 Why France insists on going ahead with selling warships to Russia 法国为何坚持对俄出售西北风级两栖攻击舰 EVEN before France signed a deal in 2011 to build two Mi

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Banks and fraud 银行与骗子 Hacking back 黑客归来 Bankers go undercover to catch bad guys 银行业者为抓坏蛋化身卧底 Funny, you don't look like a banker 搞笑,你看起来并不像银行业者 FIVE years ago MI5,Britain's securit

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American telecoms 美国电信 A breath of fresh airwavesyou want 呼吸新鲜的电波 The scramble for spectrum could reshape Americas telecoms industry 频谱争夺战可能打开美国电信新局面 JULIUS GENACHOWSKI, the head of Americas Feder

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Nancy Wake 南希 saboteur and special agent, died on August 7th, aged 98 南希?威克,二战间功勋卓越的英国间谍特工,8月7日去世,享年98岁。 CONVIVIAL, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake could often be found cheering up a

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A self-professed introvert, which is fitting for a company that sells itself on textual communication, he values efficiency and candour. After Yahoo bought Flickr, he worked there for a few years. Everything was horrible, ugly, slow, difficult to use

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Business Office communication The Slack generation How workplace messaging could replace other missives 商业报道 办公通讯 Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式 STEWART BUTTERFIELD, the boss of Slack, a messaging company

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Charlemagne 查理曼大帝专栏 No to EUsterity 欧盟无需紧缩 The European Parliament threatens to veto a hard-won budget 欧洲议会扬言将对来之不易的财政预算投上反对票 The bitterest family rows are often over money. So it

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Britain The 4G spectrum auction 英国 英国4G频谱拍卖 Second time around 再来一发? No bonanza for the government, but that might be no bad thing 这一次衙门估计没得赚,不过或许不是什么坏事 Just under 13 years ago the f

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Undercover on a Segway 摄位车上进行的秘密活动 Tourists beware 游客们当心 A report from the seamy underworld of unlicensed tour guides 关于无证导游这个阴暗地下世界的报道 A TERRIBLE threat stalks the streets ofWashingto

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