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“A PARADISE for spies” is how a former agent of the Soviet KGB described Japan in the 1980s. Little has changed, though now the politicians and bureaucrats more often pass information to journalists t...

“间谍的天堂”，在80年代，潜伏日本的前苏联克格勃特工如此称呼这个国度。到如今，“天堂”依然是“天堂”，只不过相比外国特工，政客与官员现在更多是把消息透露给记者。但这个秋天，安倍晋三[前]首相决意推动一部新的强有力的保密法案，希望以此止住泄...

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In fact, by being on hand to pick up assets cheaply from distressed sellers, an unleveraged asset manager arguably stabilises markets rather than disrupting them. But for regulators that want not m...

事实上，通过低价收购亏损方出售的资产，毫无疑问一家独大的投资管理公司能够为市场带来稳定，而非混乱。要不是监管机构不仅希望避免上次金融危机重演，还想确认未来体系风险的来源，贝莱德还会引发另一微妙的问题，不是资产的所有权，而是买入或卖出的决策方...

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The rise of BlackRock. In 25 years, BlackRock has become the world's biggest investor. Is its dominance a problem? ASK conspiracy theorists who they think really runs the world, and they will pr...

贝莱德的崛起 贝莱德二十五年间成为世界上最大资产管理公司，一家独大会出问题吗？ 问问阴谋论者到底是谁主宰着世界，他们很可能会将矛头指向跨国银行，比如花旗银行、美国银行、摩根大通，石油巨头埃克森美孚、壳牌可能也会躺枪。或许，还会有...

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The World Bank is a technocratic development organisation, not a place for political advocacy. Setting up gay rights as a test of its lending decisions is likely to make the bank less effective at wha...

世行是一个技术主导的发展组织而不是用作政治倡议的。设置同性恋权利作为其贷款政策的检测关卡可能会使得世行在消除极端贫困问题的效率上大打折扣，金先生曾经强调这是世行的核心任务。 世行的技术解决论在该组织的特色中扮演了一个重要的角色。它的创...

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Tracing family trees is a popular British pastime. Television programmes show celebrities rummaging through old census documents. Websites help amateur sleuths track down distant relatives. A new proj...

追踪家谱是大不列颠一项流行的消遣方式。电视节目总是播放着名人们为寻亲而不断查找老旧的人口普查资料的信息。网站帮助业余侦探寻找人们的远房亲戚。一个在8月26号新建的项目则带来了一股扭曲的热潮。 “同族的英国人”是由尼古拉斯·詹金斯创办的...

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A space company based on the Isle of Man, a British dependency in the Irish Sea, became the second company-after Space Adventures, an American space-tourism firm-to offer tickets for a commercial moon...

一家位于爱尔兰海的英国属地马恩岛的太空公司成为继美国太空旅游公司 Space Adventures 之后第二家提供商业登月门票的公司。 两家公司都对每个座位收取 1.5 亿美元的费用，这个价格包括数月的地面培训。两个公司都不提供降落地面的服...

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Mr Nightingale, a professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, makes a fair case for studying the emergence of colonial cities as a single phenomenon. More contentious is his argument tha...

居住在布法罗的纽约州立大学教授南丁格尔先生，为了保证公平，把殖民城市的出现当作一个简单的现象来研究。更容易引起争论的是，他认为现代的芝加哥市提供了一个可比案例——富裕的白色人种逼迫少数人种，尤其是黑人，住在环境恶劣的隔离地区里。 他认...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Segregation in cities. Living in black and white. How different races inhabit cities. Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities. By Carl Nightingale. Carl Nig...

文艺 书评 城市里的种族隔离 黑白时代 不同的种族如何共居于城市 《种族隔离：城市分裂的全球史》，卡尔·南丁格尔着。 卡尔·南丁格尔的这本着作讲述了种族隔离的历史，并据称详细描绘了几千年来，城市是如何在种族界限中分裂的。但...