我,37岁,瘦瘦的,高高的,相貌平庸,属于扔人堆里你就找不到了的那种,很少有人会把我和一个职业的老千联想到一起, 但,我是个老千,职业的老千, 我,37岁,但我的心好像已经73了,在赌场拼搏的日子,心老得特别快。十几年的生活,似乎已经让我透支了后半生的活力,没有什么能让我兴奋了。也许我真的老了。偶尔我也会问自己,我的人生就这样了?谁知道呢。 很多人都看过关于赌博的电影电视,里面的赌圣赌王们个个英俊潇洒、沉稳老练。跟这些天生的帅哥比起来,我很自卑。我平庸的相貌,很少有人会把我跟职业老千联想到一起。只有一次,一个看相的老人意味深长地点破了我的身份。当时我有点狼狈,职业老千怎么说也不是上得了台面的工作。看着他核桃皮一样的面孔和那双世故浑浊的眼神,我心里说不上什么滋味。那老人家复杂的眼神一直深深印在我脑海中,如果我运气足够好,能够安稳地活到那么老,会是什么样子?...
On August 23, the day before the hurricane struck, Max and Bonnie Lamb awoke early, made love twice and rode the shuttle bus to Disney World. That evening they returned to the Peabody Hotel, showered separately, switched on the cable news and saw that the storm was heading directly for the southeastern tip of Florida. The TV weatherman warned that it was the fiercest in many years. Max Lamb sat at the foot of the bed and gazed at the color radar image-a ragged flame-colored sphere, spinning
《产业组织理论、证据和公共政策》 作者:克拉克森 米勒译者的话 产业组织理论也可理解为产业竞争组织学。按照施马伦西(Sohmalensee)的解释,产业组织是“难以用标准教科书或竞争模型分析的市场的经济学。在该领域中,主要研究各种不完全竞争模型的实证和规范含义,政府反托拉斯活动的组织及其后果,以及旨在提高市场绩效的各种管制政策。” 产业组织的渊源一直可以追溯到亚当·斯密。斯密认为,竞争的结果总是使价格与成本一致。这一论断提出后100多年一直无人挑战。到了本世纪初的马歇尔那里,这个假定便成了“一般可以通过竞争使市场价格与单位生产成本相等。”本世纪20、30年代兴起的现代厂商理论第一次对这个假定提出了挑战。斯拉法(1926)、琼·罗宾逊(1933年)、E·张伯仑(1933)相继提出了不完全(或垄断)竞争理论,由于这一贡献,他们就成为产业组织的直接理论先驱。他们认为,由于许多行业存在产品差...
《梼杌闲评》第一回 朱工部筑堤焚蛇穴 碧霞君显圣降灵签诗曰:极目洪荒动浩歌,英雄淘尽泪痕多。狂澜一柱应难挽,圣泽千秋永不磨。望里帆樯时荡漾,空中楼阁自嵯峨。临流无限澄清志,驱却邪螭净海波。且说尧有九年之水,泛滥中国,人畜并居。尧使大禹治之,禹疏九河归于四渎。哪四渎?乃是江渎、淮渎、河渎、汉渎。那淮渎之中,有一水怪,名曰支祁连,生得龙首猿身,浑身有四万八千毛窍,皆放出水来,为民生大害。禹命六丁神将收之,镇于龟山潭底,千万年不许出世。至唐德宗时,五位失政,六气成灾,这怪物因乘沴气,复放出水来,淹没民居。观音大士悯念生民,化形下凡收之,大小四十九战,皆被他走脱。菩萨乃化为饭店老妪,那怪屡败腹饥,也化作穷人,向菩萨乞食。菩萨运起神通,将铁索化为切面与他吃。那怪食之将尽,那铁索遂锁住了肝肠。菩萨现了原身,牵住索头,仍锁在龟山潭底。铁索绕山百道,又于泗州立宝塔镇之,今大圣寺宝...
The red sun balances on the highest ramparts of the mountains, and in its waning light, the foothills appear to be ablaze. A cool breeze blows down out of the sun and fans through the tall dry grass, which streams like waves of golden fire along the slopes toward the rich and shadowed valley. In the knee-high grass, he stands with his hands in the pockets of his denim jacket, studying the vineyards below. The vines were pruned during the winter. The new growing season has just begun. The color
HE SEEMED INCAPABLE of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him. And that was fine. He was ninety-one, paralyzed, strapped in a wheelchair and hooked to oxygen. His second stroke seven years ago had almost finished him off, but Abraham Rosenberg was still alive and even with tubes in his nose his legal stick was bigger than the other eight. He was the only legend remaining on the Court, and the fact that he was still breathing irritated most of the mob bel
December 6, 1996 Epworth Heights Luddington, Michigan My Dearest Kay, 1 am sitting on the porch, staring out at Lake Michigan as a sharp wind reminds me I need to cut my hair. 1 am remembering when we were here last, both of us abandoning who and what we are for one precious moment in the history of our time. Kay, I need you to listen to me. You are reading this because I am dead When I decided to write it, 1 asked Senator Lord to deliver it to you in person in the early part of December,
Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil, 1991 With a POWERFUL KICK FROM ITS twin turbofan engines, the sleek executive jet lifted off the runway and shot into the vaulted skies above Sao Paulo. Climbing rapidly over the biggest city in South America, the Learjet soon reached its cruising altitude of thirty-nine thousand feet and raced toward the northwest at five hundred miles an hour. Seated in a fortable rear-facing chair at the back of the cabin, Professor Francesca Cabral peered wistfully out the wind
At midmorning of a broiling summer day the life of Three Counties Hospital ebbed and flowed like tide currents around an offshore island. Outside the hospital the citizens of Burlington, Pennsylvania, perspired under a ninety-degree shade temperature with 78 per cent humidity. Down by the steel mills and the rail yards, where there was little shade and no thermometers, the reading-if anyone had bothered to take it-would have been a good deal higher. Within the hospital it was cooler than outs
附:【本作品来自互联网及出版图书,本人不做任何负责】内容版权归作者所有沉浮作者:瞬间倾城扶摇直上九万里掖庭 我来掖庭已经五年了。每日只见宫墙飞檐的四角围起巴掌大的天。还好,常有阳光。破败不足以形容这个地方,地面上满是湿滑的淤泥,四处都是随风飘散的棉絮,空气里弥漫着骚臭的气味。“起来,起来,干活啦。”远处一个痴肥的妇人边喊边用手中的木棍敲打随处躺卧的女人们。因为没有房屋,这里的女人们都随手抱过干草就睡。她是赵媪,分管浣衣司。 那些女人头发散乱,有的地方还打着结夹杂着草屑,破烂的衣服下漏出长年不洗澡黝黑乌亮的皮肤,塞满淤泥的指甲让人作呕。我自然也同她们一样,同样的不堪入目。浑身的虱子正咬得我心烦。这里不是冷宫。那般好地方是我们羡慕的。年老色衰或因故得罪皇帝的妃嫔起码曾经享受过盛世富贵、无限宠爱,我们只是因朝上父兄获罪牵连九族的女子,无论身家如何,都是一样的待遇。...
托马斯 弗里德曼再版前言读者将在新版中看到有关教育和平坦世界的很多内容。最后,我发现很多读者和评论家提供的反馈既周全又有用,我希望将一些精华部分吸收进去。托马斯 弗里德曼 华盛顿特区2006年1 月序经常有国内的企业界朋友,和我一起探讨关于“发展”的问题。这些商界精英所关注的领域,常常超出他们目前的经营范围而将眼光放到周边乃至世界市场的竞争环境中去。在讨论中。弗里德曼先生以它独特的视角讲述了世界正在变平的过程。他在书中援引了很多热点话题,介绍了诸多令人瞩目的市场和炙手可热的行业。开放源代码、外包、离岸生产、供应链和搜索技术等被描述成为铲平世界的10大动力,而中国、印度等国家和一些站在全球顶尖位置的公司和机构,则被描述成变平的世界中举足轻重的角色。书中写到的许多现象新鲜但不陌生,更有一些是我们工作中接触过甚至直接参与的商业行为。但是当弗里德曼把所有这一切编织在一起的时候,却揭...
侧身警界作者:书生惆怅英雄梦内容简介: 大学毕业时,正直而又充满正义感、理想化色彩比较浓厚的戈冰剑,为了实现警察梦想,抛弃了留城的机会,作为一名优秀大学生被组织上分配到县一级公安机关锻炼培养。他先后在农村派出所干过外勤,在局机关做过秘书,当过副科长,到派出所当过指导员,在这个警察的世界里,他履行起了一个人民警察的职责,克服了夫妻两地分居、生活条件差、地方排挤等重重困难,艰难地生活和工作着,尽可能地发挥着自己的特长、优势。在侧身警界和基层官场中,他一方面经历着梦想在警界和现实中被挤压着一边生长一边变化的心路历程,一方面始终坚守自己的人生信仰,守卫自己的精神家园,虽然最终没能真正融入当地的警察体系,但由于这种距离与矛盾的存在,恰恰给他提供了观察真正的警察生活的最好焦距。在后来选择离开奋斗了数年的付出过泪水与欢笑的地方时,戈冰剑不是庆幸不是不得已也不是伤心,而是一种...