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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:繁文缛节该省省了
CHEERS greeted Barack Obama’s hiring of Cass Sunstein away from the University of Chicago. Mr Sunstein, a lawyer, now head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is in charge of l2012-02-24 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:腐败之都 Capital of Corruption
ON MARCH 15th the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, will start to serve a 14-year sentence for corruption in a federal low-security prison. In this part of America, he is treading a well-2012-03-01 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:无处高速 Going Nowhere Fast
NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with the desired twofer. First, building the special tracks and locomotives would put a division or two of America&r2012-03-12 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:势利之国 Snob Nation
ON FEBRUARY 25th Rick Santorum, the second-ranking Republican presidential hopeful, called President Barack Obama a snob for advising everyone to get themselves a college education. America, apparent2012-03-13 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:纽约的警察同志们,有木有玩过头了?
BECAUSE of the September 2001 attacks, the New York Police Department has become a sophisticated counter-terrorism agency. In the decade since then the NYPD has increased the number of detectives on2012-03-14 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:差距再次扩大
OCCUPY WALL STREET may be long gone from lower Manhattan, but worries persist about the gap between America’s richest 1% and the rest. Talk of inequality pervades the presidential race. In his2012-03-15 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:美国的清真寺越来越多
IN EARLY 2010 opponents of a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, spray-painted NOT WELCOME on a sign announcing the new building. Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but their scrawl captured t2012-03-16 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:洛杉矶的新星-地景艺术
THE object in question is really just a very large granite boulder. It weighs 340 tons and is the size of a house. It sat unappreciated in a California quarry until Michael Heizer, an artist, spotted2012-03-19 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:北方投机佬的胜利
THE night before Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi voted in their primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final appeals at a forum in an ornate old theatre in downtown Birmingham.2012-03-20 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:开启黑人牧师时代
WHEN Fred Luter, the pastor of a large congregation in a flood-damaged section of New Orleans, assumes the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at its annual meeting in June, it will n2012-03-21 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:加州税收——一塌糊涂
THOMAS HOBBES famously described the original state of nature as bellum omnium contra omnes. California’s governor, Jerry Brown, who received a Jesuit education and likes to flaunt his classica2012-03-23 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:共和党的预算草案
THE Republican majority in the House of Representatives called its budget proposal The path to prosperity: A blueprint for American renewal. Whether it would live up to that billing we will never kno2012-03-27 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:我是一台无处不在的摄像机
BRIAN Lamb could hardly be a more unlikely media entrepreneur—a modest and civilised man in a world with more than its fair share of egomaniacs and vulgarians. But he was a great one nonetheless. He2012-04-01 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:"宝瓶"时代
Deep-sea exploration深海探索The age of Aquarius 1“宝瓶”时代1Inner space is almost as hard to explore as outer space探太空难,察深海亦不易Have you seen Cameron’s latest?卡梅隆的“新作”你看了吗?JA2012-04-06 编辑:richard
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:回归野性
IN A quiet spot in eastern Montana, on rolling golden prairies and under vast skies, 71 buffalo calves charge out of a corral. Kicking up dust as they run, they quickly join a herd of several hundred2012-03-22 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:最富1%们究竟何许人也
MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and2012-03-29 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:选民身份认定——不再继续
VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the state&rsquo2012-03-26 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:仅仅因为他是黑人?
IT TOOK a month or so, but the killing of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was shot in Florida in late February, has developed into a predictable political circus. Barack Obama has opined on it, as hav2012-04-05 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:"拯救"大型购物中心
THE old Rackspace headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers cloud-computing and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were2012-04-09 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:加州的海水淡化
IF CALIFORNIA were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral modu2012-04-10 编辑:beck