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WHENEVER Robert Byrd walked the corridors and chambers of the Senate, he went in a crowd of people. Some were his constituents, in camouflage caps and T-shirts, gape-mouthed among the gilt and marble,...

无论什么时候罗伯特·伯德行走在参议院的走廊和房间里，总有一群人相伴而行。一些是他的选民，戴着迷彩帽，穿着T恤，瞠目于参议员的金碧辉煌，他们是来找他谈马什福克小学或者他们叔叔的黑肺之类的问题。但他也见过密西西比的亨利·富特挥舞手枪，萨姆·休斯...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Racism in sport; The black white hope; The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African-American Champion. By William Gildea. “THE whitest black m...

文艺；书评；运动场上的种族歧视; 黑白的希望; 《最漫长的比赛：与首位美裔黑人拳击冠军——乔甘斯同行》威廉姆·吉尔迪亚着。 一百年前，某位着名的美国体育记者曾这样赞赏乔甘斯：“他是拳击场里最受白人拥戴的黑人。”彼时彼地，这...

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Mr Sillitoe's heroes defied all systems and were part of no class, except “us” versus “them”. They kept their own pride, like Seaton's sharp suits for a big night out, or the exhilaration Smith felt, ...

西氏笔下的主人公反抗所有的体制权威，除了用“我们”PK“他们”来形容之外，这些“英雄”不属于任何阶级。他们的个性是骄傲的，犹如西顿身上很潮的服饰适合于意义重大的节日之夜，犹如史密斯所感到的亢奋激动那样——当他独自跑着穿越田野，违背教养院院长...

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English working men had been heard from before.$#10320#$10320#$ Piers Plowman, chancing one summer day upon a field of folk; John Clare's shepherd, observing cabbage fields and nesting birds; D.$#1032...

英国劳动者的文学形象以前便出现过：皮尔斯·普洛曼曾在某个夏日与一群田野莽夫不期而遇；约翰·克莱尔笔下的牧羊人会耐心观察卷心菜地和筑巢的飞鸟；D·H·劳伦斯描述的那些沉默寡言的矿工则会在炉火前洗掉他们身上的污垢。但是，这些生产线上的人物形象从...

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Business. The psychology of discounting. Something doesn't add up. How marketers can take advantage of consumers' innumeracy. WHEN retailers want to entice customers to buy a particular product,...

商业 “打折”心理学 就是算不对 且看营销人员如何利用“数学盲”消费者 零售商想吸引顾客购买某种特别商品时，典型做法就是打折促销了。但是，一项发表在《市场营销杂志》的新研究则说明了他们并未统揽全局，掌握所有窍门。 ...

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Books and Arts; Book review; How the internet works; Mapping the tubes; Contrary to expectations, the internet has a heart of cable and steel. Tubes: A Journey to the Centre of the Internet. By And...

文艺；书评；互联网如何运作; 绘制网路全景; 和预期不一样 互联网有一颗由电缆和钢铁组成的“心脏” 《网路：通往互联网中心的旅程》，作者安德鲁·布朗姆。 此书开篇引用了约翰·佩里·巴洛于1996年写的一篇文章中的一段...

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Mr Hamidi's enemies, most of them businessmen offended by his cleaning-up exercises, called him a puppet of the Karzais, their dog on a leash. That infuriated him. Yes, he had sold 10,000 acres of lan...

哈米迪的政府内肃清运动为他招来众多敌人，其中多数是商业大亨，他们称哈米迪为卡扎伊家族的傀儡、拴着链子的走狗。这让哈米迪大为光火。不过，他的确曾出售给卡尔扎伊另一个兄弟穆哈穆德·卡尔扎伊10,000公顷土地，用以建造艾诺米娜住房高级住房发展中...

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Like most mayors, Ghulam Haider Hamidi had big dreams for his city. He imagined wide, paved roads where the traffic flowed freely. He hoped for first-class schools with computers, and housing developm...

和多数市长一样，胡拉姆·海德尔·哈米迪也在心中为自己管辖的这座城市描绘了宏伟蓝图：设想中的城市里宽阔平整的马路上交通畅通无阻；学校质量一流并配有计算机；住宅规划让富人住宅集中；街道两旁商店整齐有序，公园秀木绿洲般点缀其间；夜色降临时整个城市...