纽约时报

安东尼·刘易斯：《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》

批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案安东尼·刘易斯：
《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》
（Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment），
何帆译，
北京大学出版社2011年。
ISBN: 9787301188736

内容简介

1960年，因为一则批评性广告，警察局长沙利文以诽谤为由，将《纽约时报》告上法庭，并申请巨额赔偿。两审失利后，几乎被各地政府官员相继提起的索赔逼至绝境的《纽约时报》，奋起上诉至联邦最高法院。九位大法官在“《纽约时报》诉沙利文案”中力挽狂澜，宣布“对公共事务的讨论应当不受抑制、充满活力并广泛公开”，维护了媒体、公民批评官员的自由。《纽约时报》资深记者、两度普利策奖得主安东尼·刘易斯，以翔实史料、生动笔触，系统回顾了这起新闻自由史上的里程碑案件，并循此为线，串接起美国人民争取言论自由的司法抗争历史，完美展现了霍姆斯、布兰代斯、汉德、沃伦、布伦南、布莱克、韦克斯勒等伟大法官和律师的形象。

NYT: Is Law School a Losing Game?

By DAVID SEGAL

IF there is ever a class in how to remain calm while trapped beneath $250,000 in loans, Michael Wallerstein ought to teach it.

Here he is, sitting one afternoon at a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a tall, sandy-haired, 27-year-old radiating a kind of surfer-dude serenity. His secret, if that’s the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls and letters that he receives every day from the dozen or so creditors now hounding him for cash.

“And I don’t open the e-mail alerts with my credit score,” he adds. “I can’t look at my credit score any more.”

Mr. Wallerstein, who can’t afford to pay down interest and thus watches the outstanding loan balance grow, is in roughly the same financial hell as people who bought more home than they could afford during the real estate boom. But creditors can’t foreclose on him because he didn’t spend the money on a house.

He spent it on a law degree. And from every angle, this now looks like a catastrophic investment.

Read the full article.

《纽约时报》中国环境污染问题系列报道：Choking on Growth

Choking on Growth

Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis

Part I. As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes

Part II. Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up

Part III. In China, a Lake’s Champion Imperils Himself

Part IV. Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs

Part V. Far From Beijing’s Reach, Officials Bend Energy Rules

Part VI. China’s Turtles, Emblems of a Crisis

Part VII. Trucks Power China’s Economy, at a Suffocating Cost

Part VIII. In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters

Part IX. China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories

Part X. Beijing’s Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue

New York Times

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes

[Cf. 《纽约时报》中国环境污染问题系列报道]

By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY
The New York Times, Published: August 26, 2007

mines in Shenmu
China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store.

China’s cement factories
China’s cement factories, like this one in Ningxia Province, use 45 percent more power than the world average, and its steel makers use about 20 percent more.

coal mines in Shaanxi
China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from coal mines like this one in Shaanxi Province behind a village store.

《纽约时报》英语报道原文

Audio Slide Show: The World’s Smokestack

Video: The Real Cost of China’s Growth

该报道的中译文(PDF)、汉语普通话音频文件。