China's Ma Long, the former world No. 1 who was dropped from the Olympic team for his tendency to crumble under pressure, trained with the look of a man walking down the aisle to a shotgun wedding, which continued throughout a bad loss in the semi to Wang.

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Oppenheimer's flaws his arrogance, his occasional cruelty and his tendency to go to pieces under pressure along with his obvious genius are carefully brought out in both books.

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The worry is that, under German pressure, the ECB will have the same misguided tendency to toughness, condemning the euro area to years of stagnation.

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