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Did Putin Sink Cyprus?
THE blue-glass skyscrapers of Moscow City - fragments of Russia's boom-time dream - are visible from the Kremlin walls, within which there was once hope that those towers could supplant the West's financial centres. When the sun sets behind them, you can see that many of the offices lie empty. In fact, the real hubs for Russian banking are in other countries. Moscow's billionaires squirrel their fortunes abroad, and many ...
Comparing My Little (Global) School
THERE was a time when middleclass parents in America could be - and were - content to know that their kids' public schools were better than those in the next neighbourhood over. As the world has shrunk, though, the next neighbourhood over is now Shanghai or Helsinki. So, last August, I wrote a column quoting Andreas Schleicher - who runs the global exam that compares how 15-year-olds in public schools around the world do in applied reading ...

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