Where many accounts of recent Italian history have been prone to overheated rhetoric and cries of scandal, all three of these books are admirable for their sober, businesslike tone.

不少关于意大利最近历史的记述都流于过激的言辞和丑闻披露，而上述三本书却以其清醒，精干的语调见长。

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THE trading scandal that has rocked UBS, Switzerland's biggest and most error-prone bank, has just cost it its chief executive.

瑞士最大、最常出错的银行瑞银集团交易丑闻震动瑞银帝国朝野，其首席执行官刚刚宣布辞职。

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THE trading scandal that has rocked UBS, Switzerland’s biggest and most error-prone bank, has just cost it its chief executive.

瑞士最大、最常出错的银行瑞银集团交易丑闻震动瑞银帝国朝野，其首席执行官刚刚宣布辞职。

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To illustrate a point, accept that Republicans are equally inept, waste as much and are just as scandal prone as Democrats.

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In fact, it was once the workings of the movie studios to publicize--if not manufacture--such scandal-prone courtships.

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Ms Livni served as foreign minister throughout the government of Mr Sharon's unpopular and scandal-prone successor, Ehud Olmert.

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