前几天我的两个小家伙有一场有趣的对话, 真是同一件事用不同的语言说出来产生完全不同的效果。 前一阵,美国海军航空兵训练时,因失误, 竟然把炸弹投到珊瑚礁上,毁掉了不少珊瑚。大儿子为此愤愤不满, 认为怎么能如此毁坏环境,他就给妹妹讲此事,希望得到强烈支持。 妹妹听了,没有什么反应,她还不大知道珊瑚礁有什么重要性, 不以为然。 哥哥一看,立刻说,他们轰炸了 Nemo (电影 Finding Nemo) 的家。妹妹一听,立马跳了起来,说道: What! How stupid they were. Guilty, guilty, guilty. They should all go jail. 看看,同一件事,说的方式不一样,得到完全不同的效果。
我们都知道 斯诺登是美国正在全球通缉的泄密犯,但是对另一个泄密犯就不好办了。当然了他是总统,他说这不是泄密,别人又有什么办法呢? ———— http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2013/07/29/obama-was-one-of-the-leakers-of-summers-at-fed-speculation-columnist-says/ Obama was one of the leakers of Summers at Fed speculation, columnist says President Barack Obama was one of the officials who leaked that he was on the verge of naming Larry Summers to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve,according to a column Monday by progressive columnist Robert Kuttner. According to Kuttner, in a follow-up email, a reliable source told him the president mentioned Summers on background to a small group of the press. The carefully orchestrated campaign went awry because of a massive backlash from Senate Democrats, Kuttner said. At the daily press briefing Monday, White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest declined to comment on Obama’s deliberations in picking a Fed chair. Kuttner, who has long decried the influence of Robert Rubin on the Democratic Party , sees the former Treasury secretary as the puppet-master at the center of the race for Fed chairman. In a blog on the Huffington Post , Kuttner said Rubin and his allies would never accept Yelllen as Fed chief because she is too independent and not friendly enough to Wall Street. So with Summers’ candidacy damaged, Rubin will look for another viable candidate. “If Rubin, Summers and their allies run true to form, they will be frantically looking for a plausible woman candidate who is closer to Wall Street than Yellen,” Kuttner said. “It’s increasingly clear that the game here is to block Yellen,” Kuttner said. — Greg Robb