Obituary;Mau Piailug 讣告;Mau Piailug Pius Mau Piailug, master navigator, died on July 12th, aged 78 庇护Mau piailug ,航海家,于七月十二日逝世,终年78岁 In the spring of 1976 Mau Piailug offered to sail a boat from Hawaii to T

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Books and Arts;Book review;The second world war; 文艺;书评;第二次世界大战; Counting the cost; 二战代价几何? Two British historians analyse the 20th centurys worst conflict. 看两位英国历史学家如何剖析20世纪最严重

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Mr Hastings's technique is to mine the written record of those who took part both actively and passively. His witnesses range from the men whose decisions sent millions to their deaths to the ordinary soldiers who carried out their orders and the civ

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The majority of the civilian soldiers of the Western democracies, by contrast, just wanted to survive and return to normal life as soon as possible. That also meant that American and British generals had to eschew the dashing aggression of their Russ

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Mr Beevor is keener than Mr Hastings on detailing the horror. He is particularly vivid in describing the barbarities that became commonplace during the carnage on the Eastern front. Frozen German corpses littering the battlefield were frequently miss

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BRIAN Lamb could hardly be a more unlikely media entrepreneura modest and civilised man in a world with more than its fair share of egomaniacs and vulgarians. But he was a great one nonetheless. He came up with the idea of C-Span in the late 1970s wh

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Assuming their controls are adequate, that would still leave 90% of the wage difference between white workers and ethnic minorities, which was recently estimated to be 14%, unexplained. 假设他们的控制条件相同,那么白种人员工和少数

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Leaders 社论精粹 Ariel Sharon 阿里埃勒沙龙 He may be missed 也许会有人怀念他 Israel neededand still needsa man like Ariel Sharon to bludgeon a path to peace 以色列曾经需要现在依旧需要像阿里埃勒沙龙那样的人去为

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Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Racism in sport;The black white hope 体坛的种族歧视;黑人拳王奋斗史 The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African-American Champion. By William Gildea. 《最长的奋斗

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Books and Arts; Book Review; English landscape;Up hill, down dale 文艺;书评;书卷中的英伦风光;风光无限好 TOM FORT pedals down the A303 in Britains soft south. Paul Barker trudges round Hebden Bridge in the hard north. Both writers

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Roman Opalka 罗曼欧帕尔卡 Roman Opalka, painter of infinity, died on August 6th, aged 79 罗曼欧帕尔卡,绘制无限的画家,于八月六日逝世,享年79岁 SLOWLY, though his heart was pounding like a runners, Roman Opalka approac

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Popular pastimes 流行的消遣活动 Dancing queens 广场舞皇后 Grooving grannies encounter opposition 随音乐起舞的大妈们遭到了反对 Oct 26th 2013 | BEIJING |From the print edition ON OCTOBER 11th a story buried on page 15 of a Bei

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Liverpool and China 利物浦与中国 Here comes the yuan 人民币驾到 A citys bid to revive its fortunes through the local and the global 利物浦努力通过本地特色和全球投资重振其经济 Sep 3rd 2011 | LIVERPOOL | from the print e

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Business. 商业。 Cosmetic treatment for men. 男士美容。 Beauty and the beasts. 美女和野兽。 More men are enduring jabs and cuts to look younger. 为了看上去年轻,越来越多的男士宁愿接受注射和整容。 IN GEORGES ROMA

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The economic battleground 经济战场 Gas and chocolate 天然气和巧克力 Supporting Ukraine's economy will not be easy or cheap 支持乌克兰的经济怕是既不容易也不廉价 THE Ukrainian economy is a mess. 乌克兰的经济现在是一

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CAPITAL punishment has been meted out in Connecticut since colonial times, when convicted witches were sentenced to death. In recent years it has been used sparingly . Of the 4,686 murders committed between 1973 and 2007, only 66 led to convictions o

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Connecticut will be the 17th state to abolish the death penalty and the fifth to do so in the past five years. Nor is it likely to be the last: other states are reconsidering capital punishment. Repeal bills have been proposed in a number of states,

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Obituary;Seve Ballesteros; 讣告;塞弗巴耶斯特罗斯; Severiano Ballesteros, Europe's greatest golfer, died on May 7th, aged 54. 欧洲高尔夫名将Severiano Ballesteros,5月7日辞世,享年54岁。 As he struck the ball, Seve Balles

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THE tourists taking pictures of John Kennedys relatively modest birthplace in Brookline on Presidents Day had not heard that the former presidents great-nephew had just entered the family business. But it seemed that everyone else in Massachusetts an

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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 the feelings of an increasingly noisy segment of Ame

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