a****9
发帖数: 235 | 1 趁McFarland正在上映之际, 收集了几部与跑步有关的电影. 供欣赏.
*McFarland*
A cross-country running coach and teacher in a small and poor California
town transforms a group of students into a top team of athletes.
既教跑步, 又教做人.
*4 Minute Mile*
A desperate teen with natural running talent is trained by an old reclusive
track coach,and eventually stands at the start line to face his biggest race.
潜力--挖掘出来才叫潜力.
*Across The Tracks*
A teen, living in a rough community, gets help from his runner brother to
pursue a dream to win ... 阅读全帖 |
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R********m
发帖数: 789 | 2 最后三部再贴一下
*The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner*
A troubled youth from a dismal home turns to a long-distance runner, and
finally wins the Governor's prize.
跑步能改造人.
*Without Limits*
Steve Prefontaine became a record-breaking runner and Olympian under the
training of coach Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike.
Nike的诞生.
*Run Fat Boy Run*
An overweight man runs a marathon to win back his ex-fiancée and son.
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a****9
发帖数: 235 | 3 趁McFarland正在上映之际, 收集了几部与跑步有关的电影. 供欣赏.
*McFarland*
A cross-country running coach and teacher in a small and poor California
town transforms a group of students into a top team of athletes.
既教跑步, 又教做人.
*4 Minute Mile*
A desperate teen with natural running talent is trained by an old reclusive
track coach,and eventually stands at the start line to face his biggest race.
潜力--挖掘出来才叫潜力.
*Across The Tracks*
A teen, living in a rough community, gets help from his runner brother to
pursue a dream to win ... 阅读全帖 |
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R********m
发帖数: 789 | 4 最后三部再贴一下
*The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner*
A troubled youth from a dismal home turns to a long-distance runner, and
finally wins the Governor's prize.
跑步能改造人.
*Without Limits*
Steve Prefontaine became a record-breaking runner and Olympian under the
training of coach Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike.
Nike的诞生.
*Run Fat Boy Run*
An overweight man runs a marathon to win back his ex-fiancée and son.
用行动证明爱. |
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发帖数: 1632 | 5 sweet! thanks for the info. I'm definitely going there next time visiting
slc :)
You may as well just forget about powder since you have been spoiled by Utah
- better yet - just sell your AT/fat ski gears and buy yourself a pair of
ice carvers.
This year is pretty dismal - VT has little snow, plus the cold/warm cycle
pretty much ensures the mountain is all ice. How far is Camelback from
where you are? It's tiny by comparison but if you desperately need a fix,
then it can suffice...
Snowshoe ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2541 | 7 What Every Pro Tennis Player Does Better Than Roger Federer
Among players active since 1990, Federer holds the worst record in matches
where the loser wins more points than the winner—but that might just be
further evidence that he's the greatest.
Ryan Rodenberg
Jan 13 2014, 7:39 AM ET AP / Rick Rycroft
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/what-e
As he enters this week’s annual Australian Open for the 16th consecutive
year, Switzerland’s living legend Roger Federer holds a p... 阅读全帖 |
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d******e
发帖数: 2541 | 8 What Every Pro Tennis Player Does Better Than Roger Federer
Among players active since 1990, Federer holds the worst record in matches
where the loser wins more points than the winner—but that might just be
further evidence that he's the greatest.
Ryan Rodenberg
Jan 13 2014, 7:39 AM ET AP / Rick Rycroft
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/what-e
As he enters this week’s annual Australian Open for the 16th consecutive
year, Switzerland’s living legend Roger Federer holds a p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2817 | 9 临行前的晚上，我将行李载上东方不败神车烤肉拉，居然发现很久不工作的CD机竟然开
始播放音乐了。这就足够了，只要有James Taylor的音乐陪伴，我就大可以一路横行天
下了。烤肉拉确实是广大北美萎缩男的神车，拥有该车三年以来，除了定期保养之外，
基本不用特别的维护，车价居然比购买时还上升了不少。
此次全程超过1600英里（2500多公里），计划3天开到。其中需要跨越的8个州大多数位
于美国的深南（Deep South），与北方诸州政治风格颇为迥异，在南北战争之前，这8
个州全部是由奴隶主把持的蓄奴州，南北战争爆发之后，奴隶主纷纷组建南军，听命于
李将军麾下，对抗北军，并且屡次以少胜多兵临北方首府华盛顿，但是在1863年7月关
键的葛底斯堡会战中，南军攻势受阻，当时，两军共有16万人参战，光是阵亡人数累计
就超过5万人，其中南军更是战死了2个旅长和15名团长。自此之后，南军兵源枯竭，无
力支撑下去，1865年4月，南军主帅李将军拒绝了奴隶主的宁为玉碎的建议，向北军格
兰特将军认输投降，当时维吉尼亚正值春耕，在李将军的请求下，北军允许南军降卒携
带战马返乡以作农业用途。在受降仪式上，格兰... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 412 | 10 Old Mr. Tidy was found dead in his study by Mr. Fiend.
Mr. Fiend recounted his dismal discovery to the police.
"I was walking by Mr. Tidy`s house when I thought I would just
pop in for a visit.
I noticed his study light was on and I decided to peek in
from the outside to see if he was in there.
There was frost on the window, so I had to wipe it away to see inside.
That is when I saw his body. So I kicked in the front door to confirm
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j******n
发帖数: 21641 | 11 from Time Magazine (中间有些link caption可忽略,直接从网站倒的,这期还谈了对美
国国内战争的重认识,想想龙应台女士写的海峡两岸的事,也许得放个100-200年再回头
看)
My copy of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind — a 114th printing, now a
bit tattered — carries an inscription from my mother: "A good book is
timeless." Mitchell's novel, whose 75th anniversary has arrived amid many
reconsiderations and even more sales, may or may not be a good book. But it
has always been a popular one. Published in the summer of 1936 at the
startling Depression price of $3... 阅读全帖 |
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r****e
发帖数: 3373 | 12 来，我给你贴一个。老头讲究起来真讲究，啰嗦起来真啰嗦，逗的时候真逗，恶的时候
真恶。
Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov
By ALVIN TOFFLER • PLAYBOY • JANUARY 1964
Playboy: With the American publication of Lolita in 1958, your fame and
fortune mushroomed almost overnight from high repute among the literary
cognoscenti—which you had enjoyed for more than 30 years—to both acclaim
and abuse as the world-renowned author of a sensational best seller. In the
aftermath of this cause célèbre, do you ever regret having written Lolita?... 阅读全帖 |
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z*i
发帖数: 58873 | 14 radiolab里面多是自然科学。 在不靠谱也比dismal science靠谱。 |
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l*****a
发帖数: 38403 | 15 这是Beatrice Cenci的画像，前两天看狄更斯的意大利游记，看到这段
"The portrait of Beatrice di Cenci, in the Palazzo Berberini, is a picture
almost impossible to be forgotten. Through the transcendent sweetness and
beauty of the face, there is a something shining out, that haunts me. I see
it now, as I see this paper, or my pen. The head is loosely draped in white;
the light hair falling down below the linen folds. She has turned suddenly
towards you; and there is an expression in the eyes—although they are very
tender an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10 | 16 Hehe, it is the most heavily German Expressionism influenced Hitch movies.
Hitch started his career at a studio in Germany and he absorbed quite a few
method from Fritz Lang, through the unusual camera angles, obscure lighting
and some exaggerated settings, Scottie's inner life is slowly and entirely
exposed.
The casting is flawless, the all American boy, Stewart accurately portraits
a man searching for the unattainable. Interesting though, Hitch blamed
Stewart for being too old for Vertigo's d... 阅读全帖 |
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r*********n
发帖数: 13992 | 17 这个有啥好科普的，google一下就成了。
只贴一段文献里的话：
It is estimated that in 2007, there will be 37,170 new cases of pancreas
cancer diagnosed, and 33,370 deaths
from pancreas cancer. Pancreas cancer is rapidly fatal, with a median
survival of approximately 6 months after
diagnosis. Over 75% of pancreas cancers are diagnosed in regional or distant
stages, leading to the dismal 5-
year relative survival rate of 5%. Risk factors for pancreas cancer include
increasing age, cigarette smoking, a
history of diabetes or p... 阅读全帖 |
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t****g
发帖数: 35582 | 18 还是太高。
看Schiller PE吧，现在还高于median和average，在目前这种dismal的outlook下。说
明前面一年大家炒得太欢了。
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e**n
发帖数: 5876 | 19 镜头曾经有个神话, 叫做定焦无弱旅, 写这个神话的人梦想不到S+会出E16
Optical Quality:
http://www.photozone.de/sony_nex/728-sony16f28nex7?start=1
"The center quality is certainly fine but the outer image region is
extremely soft at max. aperture and just barely acceptable around f/8. The
native vignetting characteristic of the lens is dismal" |
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e**n
发帖数: 5876 | 20 你干脆建个review网站, 把你样片一贴, 再写点评论, 来"证伪"吧
我选镜头还在以看靠谱的review网站为主
S+ 16-50mm
http://www.photozone.de/sony_nex/842-sony1650f3556oss
Optical Quality:
"The Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS broke a couple of records but
unfortunately not in the positive sense....The inclusion of a 16mm looks
highly attractive on paper but the truth is that the quality is insufficient
here - at least on Sony's 24 megapixel sensor. The resolution improves the
more you zoom out and the lens is actually pretty good in the medium t... 阅读全帖 |
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e**n
发帖数: 5876 | 21 富士在全心全意做APSC, 而S+基本放弃APSC了. 镜头4,5年没更新. 明显是挤得人去FF.
连个好的标变都没有. 16-50那个狗头怎么能和16-55 f2.8-4比
S+ 16-50mm
http://www.photozone.de/sony_nex/842-sony1650f3556oss
Optical Quality:
"The Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS broke a couple of records but
unfortunately not in the positive sense....The inclusion of a 16mm looks
highly attractive on paper but the truth is that the quality is insufficient
here - at least on Sony's 24 megapixel sensor. The resolution improves the
more you zoom out and the lens is actuall... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 22 www.jonsavage.com/film
Bernard Sumner
[interview, April 1994]
Bernard onstage
Bernard Albrecht Sumner
I first met Ian at a gig at the Electric Circus. It might have been the
Anarchy tour, it might have been The Clash, or one of them punk groups. Ian
was with another lad called Ian, and they both had donkey jackets, and Ian
had “HATE” written on the back of his donkey jacket. I remember liking him
. He seemed pretty nice, but we didn’t talk to him that much. I just
remembered him. Later on, about... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2451 | 23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRuOJwlEtwY
Late afternoon, dreaming hotel
We just had the quarrel that sent you away.
I was looking for you, are you gone gone ?
Called you on the phone, another dimension.
Well, you never returned, oh you know what I mean.
I went looking for you, are you gone, gone ?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal,
Women all standing with a shock on their faces.
Sad description, oh I was looking for you.
Everyone was singing, girl is washed up
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发帖数: 86 | 24 Tuesday morning would have been dismal in my month other than December. But
when I awoke, three hours later than usual, the gray, sleety mix falling
outside was warmed by Christmas lights inside. My mother must have tiptoed in
and lit the candles in my bedroom windows. In the hall the pine garland that
was wrapped around the railing of the second-floor balcony twinkled its way
down the steps, leading me from langing to landing. I found my mother in the
kitchen, working with her faithful glue g |
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a*****y
发帖数: 33185 | 25 What is a PhD really worth?
Peter Fiske1
Journal name: Nature
Volume: 472, Page: 381 Year published:(2011)
Published online 20 April 2011
In the past few months there has been a string of articles1, 2 in the
Western press about the poor career prospects of graduates from professional
schools, especially law school.
Thanks to a dismal job market, applications to such institutions surged
during the recession. Now, a few years later, those applicants are
graduating into a career market that is only... 阅读全帖 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 26 BTW, if as you said, DuShu is the best in Chinese magazines, the future
for Chinse publishing is quite dismal. See my previous post. |
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发帖数: 19049 | 27 LETTERS FROM ZEDELGHEM
CHATEAU ZEDELGHEM,
NEERBEKE,
WEST VLAANDEREN
29TH-VI-1993
Sixsmith,
Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with
shelves of
porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall
and smash to bits.
Exactly what happened, but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang
out, half-cello,
half-celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase
affair off its
pedestal—E-flat, whole string section, g... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 28 E. Exposition Proper
Since the Jew is just as guilty as the Gentile (2:1-5; 17-23) and cannot sim
ply appeal to the token of circumcision to secure immunity from judgment (2:
24-29), the question might reasonably be asked—with the intention of impugn
ing God’s character and plan—what advantage is there, then, in being a Jew
or what is the value of circumcision? After all, it seems as if Paul just g
ot finished saying in 2:1-29 that there is no advantage whatsoever. Paul ans
wers this question an... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 29 E. Exposition Proper
Since the Jew is just as guilty as the Gentile (2:1-5; 17-23) and cannot sim
ply appeal to the token of circumcision to secure immunity from judgment (2:
24-29), the question might reasonably be asked—with the intention of impugn
ing God’s character and plan—what advantage is there, then, in being a Jew
or what is the value of circumcision? After all, it seems as if Paul just g
ot finished saying in 2:1-29 that there is no advantage whatsoever. Paul ans
wers this question an... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 30 Study By: Greg Herrick
Printer-friendly versionSend to friend
A. Introduction
In his book, Kingdoms in Conflict, Charles Colson paints a dismal picture of
the state of commitment to God at the UN building complex in New York:
The United Nations complex sits on sixteen acres of New York City’s choices
t real estate, bordering the East River and Manhattan. The lean, immense Sec
retariat building rises into the sky, the sun reflecting off its window wall
s. Bright flags of the nations of the world ... 阅读全帖 |
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E******u
发帖数: 3920 | 31 谢谢分享。我还真去看amazon了，也和你分享一个
Quite an epic that spans the beginning of time till the end of time. I must
say- quite a coverage.
The main character is a Dude named God who goes by many aliases (Yahweh,
Elohim, and all that)where the main plot device is the coming of His Son who
is also Him (who also has a few aliases of his own). This is a little
confusing for most readers so a little exposure to Tolkien's Trilogy would
be like a pre-soak before the actual wash. So I guess Iam that Iam would be
a go... 阅读全帖 |
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H******9
发帖数: 2766 | 32 之前提到，埃及被马其顿的亚历山大帝占领后，亚历山大死后，部将托勒密夺权，成立
了短暂的托勒密王朝。
而后凯撒大帝奠基了罗马帝国，这时候已经到了公元前的几十年。
可惜，托勒密王朝建的亚历山大图书馆的书都被毁了，据说是罗马人想剥夺埃及人的信
仰的流传。
Hermes的书据说基本上都随着亚历山大图书馆的毁去而无踪迹了。存下的一些据说被一
秘密组织世代保留着。
有一本存下的书公之于众的是The Divine Pymander，这与其说是一本，其实是17本的
组合。
其中的第二本描述了Hermes有一次类似于禅定出神的经验，收到了神的revelation:
MY THOUGHTS being once seriously busied about things that are, and my
Understanding lifted up, all my bodily Senses being exceedingly holden back,
as it is with them that are heavy of sleep, by reason either of fulness of
m... 阅读全帖 |
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Y**u
发帖数: 5466 | 33 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Hermes99 (Hermes99) 于 (Thu May 24 22:35:36 2012, 美东) 提到:
开个贴收集一下。
正统的也好，旁支的也好，巫术的也好，学院的也好。希望都来分享一下。
东方的，佛阿道啊什么的，大家多少都有了解和耳闻。那西方的体系呢？
假定是 - 东西方都是有过修行方面的圣人地，那么，自然历史上应该有他们留下的道
统的痕迹。也许，这痕迹已经很淡了，因为政治方面的原因，很多东西不能平民化...
俺是研究过一些，但是总觉得有些东西已经湮灭在历史里了...
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leonana (Nana) 于 (Thu May 24 23:44:44 2012, 美东) 提到:
不是很了解，知道点基督徒的“灵修”，我觉得其实就是打坐的村野阶段
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发帖数: 173 | 34 Facebook could be the No. 1 threat to Google's ads business. People are
saying Google's search is about
collecting the demand for business, but Facebook's social network can
generate demand and in the
meantime collecting demand better. So this is a necessary move from Google'
s perspective. I don't agree
with your title though. Yes, it's hypocritical for Google to maintain they
are open, but it doesn't put them
into the category of whores. It's just business competition.
And I have issues with... 阅读全帖 |
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B*M
发帖数: 1418 | 35 讲的很实际啊
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_i
Follow the money!” According to the film All the President's Men, this
advice from the shadowy informant known as Deep Throat guided Washington
Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in cracking the Watergate
conspiracy.
The strategy also serves Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan
extremely well in her illuminating and accessible new book, How Economics
Shapes Science. A leading expert on the scientific l... 阅读全帖 |
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h*****0
发帖数: 145 | 36 http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2007/02/econ_couples_1.html
Last month the New York Times' David Leonhardt published a fascinating
article, listing 13 young (untenured) in his piece The Future of Economics
Isn’t So Dismal. It's already been given a god run in the econoblogs. The
reason I'm writing about it more than a month later is the accompanying
table (click on it to see a larger, clearer version).
Of the 13 up-and-coming academic economists, six are married to each other.
For ex |
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g****y
发帖数: 75 | 37 by Gregory Clark
Dismal scientists: how the crash is reshaping economics
With the chattering classes consumed by concern for the devastated value of
their 401K funds, and their suddenly precarious lifestyles, there has been
much anger and scorn directed at those former masters of the universe,
financiers.
But the shock to the world of finance has been echoed by a shock to the
world of academic economics that is just as profound.
In the long post WWII boom, as free market ideology triumphed, econ |
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L******k
发帖数: 33825 | 38 Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/education/21chinese.html
WASHINGTON — Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages
in the last decade, according to a government-financed survey — dismal new
s for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and
diplomacy.
But another contrary trend has educators and policy makers abuzz: a rush by
schools in all parts of America to offer instruction in Chinese.
Some schools |
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m*******1
发帖数: 328 | 39 It is a big game between the so called deadline 2015 and USMLE scores. Which
is more important? Of course, it is step score.
Some people are smarter and can do a wonderful job in a short time (less
than 1 year). But for the majority, it still takes a longer time to get a
decent score (maybe 1 year or longer). It is suicidal to take steps in a
rush. It will ruin you big time just to beat the deadline. With bad scores,
no one wants to help you at all because you are not competitive initially.
Insi... 阅读全帖 |
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m*******1
发帖数: 328 | 40 Tell us more about yourself and what you are likely to apply. The score is
not everything. Your whole package is more important.
Single encouragement is not objective and sometime even harmful. You have to
evaluate yourself in more details than just listen to other people's
feedbacks.
Truly evaluate yourself in listed aspects (1 poor, 2 fair, 3 good, 4
excellent) before you really decide to quit or carry on.
(1) Your spoken english.
(2) Your family burden especially fianacially.
(3) Your visa ... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****i
发帖数: 96 | 41 Well, I'm stupid enough to talk to you again.
Not interested in this particular topic at all for the following reasons:
a) Never a fan of pure quantitative trading strategies, although we do put
some money into quantitative global
macro strategies. You know the difference, right?
b) Many hedge funds out there operate with the strategies that I could
understand better and with controllable
risk exposure, why should I give a shit to quantitative fund that has dismal
track records?
c) In general, e |
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p***i
发帖数: 96 | 42 写的不错，为啥加上第一句啊？伤俺自尊了。呵
华尔街的那些fund你也投？你没在街上混过？
首先，除非是很多钱才有必要投给他们。小钱的话，自己做比他们业绩好很多的。
其次，关键是你怎么保证fund经理和你的利益是一致的？你怎么保证他们不会牺牲你的
钱去为他们自己赚钱？如果你是基金经理，有个机会，让基金亏10个亿，你自己却能赚
5个亿，你干不干？这样的机会太多了。所以把大笔钱投给他们才有大风险呢。
dismal
etc. |
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发帖数: 978 | 43 年关到...
ZURICH—Credit Suisse Group, which had emerged from the crisis relatively
unscathed, disclosed plans to scale back its investment bank, squeeze more
profits from private banking and slash 3,500 jobs.
In July, Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-largest bank after UBS AG, said
it would reverse a hiring spree of the last couple of years, when the bank
hired employees from rivals that had suffered sharply during the financial
crisis. It then announced cuts of 2,000 jobs, as the bank adjusted ... 阅读全帖 |
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