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偷懒了，来得晚，把大家贴的都看了

Follow Me：8, 8
个人感觉还是以前的那种形式更适合我。像这种延伸出去的阅读，精力和时间上实在顾不上来。
这个还是要看Follow Me的定位了。如果是以扩大知识面为目的，其实直接给华尔街日报的网址就可以了。如果说是让大家通过坚持提高阅读经济英文的能力，我觉得还是要精读的方式比较好。比如楼主精选出文章，跟帖的可以对其中难点进行提问和解释。

The reading material will be more in this form.
Source:http://www.economist.com/node/18713896
Decoding DSK
In matters of sex, as of war, Europeans are from Venus. They mock Americans’ puritanism about the sex lives of public figures. For a politician to cheat on his wife in America is a sign of dishonesty. Witness the opprobrium heaped on Arnold Schwarzenegger over the new revelation that he had fathered a child out of wedlock. In much of Europe, affairs can be a badge of virility. That is the insinuation of an interview given by none other than Mr Strauss-Kahn’s wife, Anne Sinclair. Asked in 2006 whether she minded her husband’s reputation, she replied: “No, I’m rather proud of it! It’s important for a politician to seduce. As long as he seduces me and I seduce him, that’s enough for me.”

Well, this is europe.

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Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (surnommé DSK) est un homme politique français, né le 25 avril 1949 à Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Professeur d'économie à l'Université de Paris-X-Nanterre, puis député socialiste à partir de 1986, il préside la commission des finances de l'Assemblée nationale de 1988 à 1991. Dans les gouvernements Édith Cresson et Pierre Bérégovoy, il est ministre de l'Industrie et du Commerce extérieur.
Maire de Sarcelles de 1995 à 1997, il contribue à la victoire de la majorité plurielle et devient ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie du gouvernement Lionel Jospin. Mis en cause dans des affaires judiciaires en 1999, il démissionne et retrouve son siège de député en 2001, après un non-lieu. Candidat à la primaire présidentielle socialiste de 2006, il est battu par Ségolène Royal.
Il prend les fonctions de directeur général du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) le 1er novembre 2007 et remet sa démission le 18 mai 20111 à la suite de son placement en détention provisoire à New York dans le cadre d'une affaire d'agression sexuelle.



来源：http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn

10,10  我也觉得前面一种形式好点

5,5

French suspect smear campaign lies behind NY arrest
By Peggy Hollinger,Jennifer Thompson , in Paris

Four days after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn for an alleged attempted sexual assault on a New York maid, France is still in shock, with most convinced the French-born International Monetary Fund boss is the victim of a smear campaign.
Some 57 per cent of those questioned in an opinion poll this week believe that Mr Strauss-Kahn, a popular Socialist politician who was preparing to launch a bid for the presidency next year, has been stitched up.
The score shoots up to 70 per cent among Socialist voters. About 29 per cent believe that Nicolas Sarkozy, incumbent president, stands to gain most with Mr Strauss-Kahn out of the race, although there is no suggestion he is thought to be behind the affair.
Even though the French public is deeply suspicious of its political and business elite, there appears to be a collective struggle to comprehend how Mr Strauss-Kahn, a self-confessed womaniser who denies the assault charges, could have ended up in prison.

“It highlights France’s denial . . . people do not want to believe it and it is interesting from the collective psychology point of view,” said Jérome Sainte-Marie, political director at polling group CSA, in an interview with 20 Minutes, the free daily for whom the survey was taken, along with BFMTV et RMC.
The survey questioned 1,007 people on Monday.
In a café on Wednesday in the chic seventh arrondissement of Paris, an area of government buildings and boutiques, the talk at the bar was only of Mr Strauss-Kahn. Customers shared their disbelief with the owner. “It is not the first time,” he told one customer.
“He is completely stupid,” the owner concluded, shaking his head at the fate of a man who a week ago was widely tipped to become French president.
Even those on the right have found the tale so incredible they would not rule out some sort of plot to bring down Mr Strauss-Kahn. Henri de Raincourt, minister for co-operation, said he “excluded nothing” when asked about the possibility of a set-up.
The affair was a “new form of political assassination”, said Michelle Saban, vice-president of the Socialist party’s Ile-de-France regional council. “I am convinced of an international conspiracy. It was the IMF which was targeted and not so much the candidate in the Socialist primaries,” she said. “Everybody knows his weakness is women.”




WOW。。。 WHO IS THE BACKSTAGE MANIPULATOR?
Considering that he was on his way to Merkel, I prefer that the IMF was the target.

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France is gripped by the biggest political sex scandal the country has ever seen. TV news bulletins and rolling news channels have hit record audience figures, newpaper websites have seen traffic soar. Sociologists described a nation in shock, hooked on the "brute emotion" of a scenario in which one of the most powerful men in the world might have fallen so low. Psychoanalysts rushed to dissect the subconscious forces that might have driven Dominique Strauss-Kahn to allegedly commit an appalling act of violence in sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a hotel maid.
If he is found guilty, some suggested an unconscious drive to self-sabotage by a man who couldn't bear the power that had been foisted on him – his wife and all around him so wanted to see him become French president next year that he might have been unable to cope. Serge Hefez, the French psychiatrist, compared the Strauss-Kahn saga to the head-butt of the football hero Zinedine Zidane, which ended France's World Cup dream of 2006. If true, it was about the unbearable pressure of rising to the top, he suggested. All agreed that the image in France of DSK as a serial-seducer whose friends claimed he "loved women" was totally different from someone committing violent sex attacks, which could be psychologically linked to having low self-esteem, hating yourself and hating others.
France is not only psychoanalysing Strauss-Kahn; the nation has put itself on the couch. Sociologists also began to unpick why France is so enthralled by conspiracy theories that Strauss-Kahn might have been ensnared by a plot. A poll on Monday, the day after DSK's arrest, found 57% of French people, and 70% of Socialist sympathisers, thought he was the victim of a plot. Several leading names on the French left, as well as some of the right, suggested DSK could have fallen for some kind of manipulation or trap, leading Le Monde to run a front-page editorial warning that the conspiracy theories were a dangerous regression and threat to democracy. The environmental MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit called for "an end to the rumours about plots".
The sociologist Denis Muzet suggested in Le Monde that the French public had fallen for conspiracy theories because people were so shocked by the accusations against such a popular politician that they had gone into denial. Stéphane Rozès, the political analyst, said French public opinion was oscillating between two theories: that Strauss-Kahn was either victim of a plot or he had some kind of sickness.
Strauss-Kahn's attitude to women continued to be dissected by journalists. The French news weekly Le Point claimed that shortly before he was detained by police who boarded an Air France plane at JFK airport, he had said to a flight attendant: "Nice arse."

手机党情何以堪啊楼主大人～
我们这些考研的只是在空余时间才掏出手机读一读的…这次改革当然很好啊可以延伸阅读但无形间增加了点时间成本…
嗯，当然不管怎样还是一如既往严重支持楼主的行为，自从推出follow me 我除了第二天由于期中考试而不得不放弃阅读之外这些天一直坚持着阅读，这对我来说还是帮助非常大的…嗯，多谢楼主～～

10,10太忙了，没时间写评论了

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You have to have the courage to examine who you really are, to come to terms with the dark corner of your own soul.

制度改变了啊

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非常喜欢楼主今天的这种发散性的方式。可以让人有发散性的思考和思维，而并不一定要守着一篇文章看懂了就行了。

毕竟相信楼主的用意，除了用英语看文章之外，慢慢的可以去用来思考和交流。

About Kahn, he is really a big pain now for IMF. But I believe apart from what we talked about justice, there is also too much politics invovled.  

Good news is, a lot of commentators are believing that next Cheif IMF may come from China or any of the developing countries. Especially China played such a big important role in the world financial crisis.

卡恩辞去IMF总裁职务[汉语版]

受到性侵犯指控的多米尼克•斯特劳斯-卡恩(Dominique Strauss-Kahn)周三晚间辞去了国际货币基金组织(IMF)总裁职位。他表示，希望保护这家机构和自己的家人免受进一步伤害。

“我想保护这家我曾带着荣耀和忠诚为其服务的机构，尤其是，尤其是——我想用我自己全部的力量、时间和精力来证明我的清白，”卡恩在IMF网站发布的一份声明中说。

卡恩向IMF董事会递交了一封正式的辞呈。他坚称“万分坚决地否认对于我本人的全部指控。”

本周初，斯特劳斯-卡恩被指控对纽约一家宾馆的女服务员实施了性侵犯和其他罪行。随后他面对的多国财长要求他辞职的压力越来越大。

IMF称，斯特劳斯-卡恩的副手约翰•利普斯基(John Lipsky)已经接替他担任代理执行总裁，并将一直担任至IMF选出新的总裁。斯特劳斯-卡恩曾任法国财政部长，于2007年被任命IMF总裁。

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第一次发的时候居然超过了长度
那就分两次了

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/19/imf-dominique-strauss-kahn

The IMF after DSK

Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned from his position as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it is worth taking an objective look at his legacy there. Until his arrest last week on charges of attempted rape and sexual assault, he was widely praised as having changed the IMF, increased its influence and moved it away from the policies that – according to the fund's critics – had caused so many problems for developing countries in the past. How much of this is true?
Strauss-Kahn took the helm of the IMF in November of 2007, when the IMF's influence was at a low point. Total outstanding loans at that time were just $10bn, down from $91bn just four years earlier. By the time he left this week, that number had bounced back to $84bn, with agreed-upon loans three times larger. The IMF's total capital had quadrupled, from about $250bn to an unprecedented $1tn. Clearly, the IMF had resources that it had never had before, mostly as a result of the financial crisis and world recession of 2008-2009.
However, the details of these changes are important. First, the collapse of the IMF's influence in the decade prior to 2007 was one of the most important changes in the international financial system since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. Prior to the 2000s, the IMF headed up a powerful creditors' cartel that was able to tell many developing country governments what their most important economic policies would be, under the threat of being denied credit not only from the fund but also from other, then larger lenders such as the World Bank, regional lenders and sometimes even the private sector. This made the fund not only the most important avenue of influence of the US government in low- and middle-income countries – from Rwanda to Russia – but also the most important promoter of neoliberal economic "reforms" that transformed the world economy from the mid 1970s onward. These reforms coincided with a sharp slowdown of economic growth in the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries for more than 20 years, with consequently reduced progress on social indicators such as life expectancy and infant and child mortality.
The IMF's big comeback during the world recession did not bring the middle-income countries that had run away from it back to its orbit. Most of the middle-income countries of Asia, Russia, as well as Latin America, stayed away, mostly by piling up sufficient reserves so that they did not have to borrow from the fund, even during the crisis. As a result, even a low-income country like Bolivia, for example, was able to renationalise its hydrocarbon industry, increase social spending and public investment, and lower its retirement age from 65 to 58 – things it could never do while it was living under IMF agreements continuously for 20 years prior. Most of the IMF's new influence and lending would land in Europe, which accounts for about 57% of its current outstanding loans.
As for changes in IMF policy, these have been relatively small. A review of 41 IMF agreements made during the world financial crisis and recession found that 31 of them contained "pro-cyclical" policies: that is, fiscal or monetary policies that would be expected to further slow the economy. And in Europe, where the IMF has most of its lending, the policies attached to the loan agreements for Greece, Ireland and Portugal are decidedly pro-cyclical – making it extremely difficult for these economies to get out of recession. The IMF's influence on Spain, which does not yet have a loan agreement, is similar. And in Latvia, the IMF presided over an Argentine-style recession that set a world historical record for the worst two-year loss of output (about 25%) – a complete disaster.

To be fair, some changes at the fund during the tenure of Strauss-Kahn were significant. For the first time ever, during the world recession of 2009, the IMF made available some $283bn-worth of reserves for all member countries, with no policy conditions attached. The fund also made some limited credit available without conditions, though only to a few countries. The biggest changes were in the research department, where there was tolerance for more open debate. For example, there were IMF papers that endorsed the use of capital controls by developing countries under some circumstances, and questioning whether central banks were unnecessarily slowing growth with inflation targets that may be too low.
But as can be seen from what is happening in the peripheral Eurozone countries, the IMF is still playing its traditional role of applying the medieval economic medicine of "bleeding the patient". To be fair to both Strauss-Kahn and the fund, neither the managing director nor anyone else at the IMF is ultimately in sole charge of policy, especially with respect to countries that are important to the people who really run the institution. The IMF is run by its governors and executive directors, of whom the overwhelmingly dominant authorities are the US treasury department, which includes heavy representation from Goldman Sachs, and, secondarily, the European powers.
Until decision-making at the IMF undergoes a dramatic change, we can expect only very small changes in IMF policy. This can be seen most clearly in the current case of Greece: Strauss-Kahn was aware that the fiscal tightening ordered by the European authorities and the IMF was preventing Greece from getting out of recession; but while he pushed for "softer" conditions, he was powerless to change the lending conditions from punishment to actual help. That's ultimately because the European authorities (European Commission and European Central Bank), not the IMF, are calling the shots – although Strauss-Kahn encountered plenty of resistance within the fund itself, too.
The voting shares of the IMF have changed only marginally, despite all the reforms of the last five years. The share of "emerging market and developing countries" – with the vast majority of the world's population – has gone from 39.4% to 44.7%, while the G7 countries have 41.2%, including 16.5% for the US (down from 17.0% pre-reform).
But the voting and governance structure is not currently the main obstacle to changing IMF policy. At this point, the developing countries – and we should add in the victimised countries of the eurozone – are not using their potential influence within the fund. Their representatives are mainly going along with the decisions of the G7. If any number of these countries were to band together in a sizeable bloc for change within the fund, there could be some real reforms at the IMF.
Such an outcome can be seen from the last decade of struggle within the World Trade Organisation, where developing countries have often not accepted the G7 consensus, and have successfully blocked the negotiation and implementation of rules that would hurt them – despite the fact that the WTO rules have been, from the outset, stacked against developing countries. It is true that the WTO operates by consensus rather than a quota-based voting structure, but that is not the key difference between it and the IMF. The key difference is in the role of developing countries and their representatives.
There is talk now of replacing Strauss-Kahn with an open, merit-based process of selection, breaking with the 67-year tradition of reserving the position for a European – most often, a French – official. At the moment, such change does not appear likely to happen. It would be a step forward, but it would be only a symbolic change, and the odds are good that the next managing director – of whatever nationality – will be to the right of Strauss-Kahn. Real change at the IMF is in the hands of the governments of most of the world – but only if they dare to organise it.

2--2.。。。。。。。。。。。。。go on studing

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Just my two cents.

Why do we spend so much time on an extended reading for someone's alleged sexual offense? We can benefit more if LZ gets articles from headlines from WSJ or Bloomberg. Thanks.

8,8  换形式了，挺好

3,3这次好像有点短啊....

“I want to protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion, and especially – especially – I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence,”

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改革了……还不习惯！

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I want to protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion,
sexual assault
I do believe he is innocent.

5,5
这么像阴谋论啊讲的

Follow 3.3
Strauss-Kahn Out of Jail After Posting $1 Million Bail
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... ar-ground-zero.html

发对照版的便于大家阅读，提高，以吸引更多童鞋关注，交流。

Will Strauss-Kahn help China surpass Japan?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s last visit to Tokyo to meet with Japanese financial officials didn’t go as planned: His plane touched down in a drastically changed country.

“I arrived in Japan on a scheduled visit shortly after the earthquake happened, and I am profoundly saddened by the loss of life that has occurred,” the managing director of the International Monetary Fund said in a statement in Tokyo on March 11 ─ the day the quake and tsunami left 24,000 people dead or missing.

As the IMF and international financial community continue to assess the global impact of Japan’s disaster, Tokyo is now weighing the impact of Strauss-Kahn’s own surprising headlines this week ─ and whether both developments could end up helping China, Japan’s chief Asian rival.
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he hopes IMF acting Managing Director John Lipsky will help the fund fulfill its mandate at a “crucial time for the European Union,” as the region continues to resolve its debt crisis.
While some economists foresee business continuing as usual ─ if $1 trillion in European bailout packages can be called “usual” ─ others say the IMF leadership shake-up could open the door to greater leadership for more up-and-coming emerging-market countries.

While both are global institutions, the IMF and World Bank are still steeped in Western influence. The head of the former is traditionally a European, while the latter has always had an American chief.
China is among the countries that have long called for an overhaul of the IMF’s voting system, so that influence reflects changes in economic status.
“One possible outcome of the [IMF] turmoil could be to accelerate the bid by EM countries for more influence and a high-profile position at the fund,” said strategists at Brown Brothers Harriman.

The U.S. is still largest donor to the IMF, but China became the third-largest IMF member country when the latest realignment was announced in March. Three other EMs ─ Brazil, India, and Russia ─ are now among the fund’s 10 largest shareholders.

Last year, China officially became the world’s second-largest economy after the U.S., and Japan dropped to No. 3.

And then the disaster struck. Last month, IMF economists cut their growth predictions for Japan in 2011 to 1.4% from 1.6% due to the impact, and warned of significant downside risks to its outlook.

The earthquake also reminded the world that Japan still occupies a prominent niche in the global supply chain ─ one that some companies are likely rethinking, after all of the disaster-triggered losses and disruptions. Japan’s pain could be China’s long-term gain, if multinational companies decide to move their manufacturing operations there.

Both the Strauss-Kahn news and the earthquake were surprising, but neither came completely out of the blue. While the IMF head is innocent until proven guilty in the U.S. legal system, the charges against him come against the backdrop of his reputation for womanizing, as well as his admission of an affair with an IMF subordinate. And Japan’s frequent seismic gyrations are notorious.

My idea: I hold the view that the impacts of the Japan’s disaster and the Strauss-Kahn’s news are beneficial to china more and less. It attaches the importance of more up-and-coming emerging-market countries to IMF and the whole world, including china. obviously, the Japan’s disaster cuts down the economic growth of this year and the influence of nuclear pollution makes Japan face to the blame of world .It will be a obstacle to the impression and development of Japan. In general, China has an opportunity to change the image of world.

新形式好是好，但是这种以点到面的方式会引发更多的信息，工作的我们时间有限啊，那么多文章看不完

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i expect who will be the next   IMF managering derictor .

i  like it    ,, takes me one hour to translate them into  chinese...

昨天第一次，今天第二次，呵呵……