1. Ahead of this year's fashion week, set to take place September 14 to 18, an open letter written by singer Paloma Faith and published by Peta also called for LFW and the BFC to ban animal fur.

2. 奥巴马将迎来第二个任期，摆在他面前的任务依然很艰巨：如何处理1万亿美元的高额年度财政赤字，如何削减高达16万亿美元的国债，如何改革开支高昂的社会事业，如何应对党派斗争激烈陷入僵局的美国国会等等。

3. 克里斯托弗诺兰的这部二战题材电影可能就是最佳影片的领跑者。

4. 但关于是否会诞生另一个火爆产品，来打破关于后乔布斯时代苹果前途的质疑，库克许久以前就学会了耐心和相信自己的直觉，正如他在1998年加入正处在困境中的苹果时对质疑者置之不理一样。

5. German Three:Mercedes-Benz begins to sag as new lower-priced Benz’s inevitably erode its once invincible “the best or nothing” status. At BMW, imminent arrival of a new 7-series cements its status as the preferred brand of Scarsdale, Shaker Heights, and Santa Monica. A new A3, starting at $30, 795, should nicely lift Audi’s sales beyond 2014’s 15% climb, and a new Q7 SUV should nicely lift profits.

6. 单词deprivation 联想记忆：

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1. Mr. Sissako is both an indispensable political filmmaker and one of the great poets of contemporary cinema. His portrait of life under jihadi rule in northern Mali is brutal and shocking, but also gentle, generous and surprisingly funny. Mr. Sissako does not humanize violent extremists so much as demonstrate that they already belong to the species and reflect part of our common, tragic nature. But his movie also insists that the only effective and ethically serious way to oppose fanaticism is with humanism. Which is to say with irony, with decency and, perhaps above all, with art. (Read the review.)

2. Indeed. That's an understated benefit of Philly tanking so hard in recent years: they are so bad it disincentives other clubs from tanking because they'll struggle to be as bad as the Sixers. The Mavericks are in the mix, at least.

3. 摩根大通公司下滑至第4名，其总综合得分位居中国农业银行之后。去年名列前10强的两家欧企——荷兰皇家壳牌和汇丰控股，今年仅分别排名11名和14名。

4. “This has been a miserable year for EM,” said Paul McNamara, investment director of emerging markets at GAM, the Swiss fund house. “There has been a steady bleed out of assets and no one is certain what shape the market might be in this time next week.”

5. n. 青少年

6. Jeanie Buss's decision to finally dump Jim Buss—a man with none of the skills required to be a quality executive and years of floundering moves to his name—makes the Lakers clear winners all by itself.

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1. 单词lasting 联想记忆：

2. However, this year it is ranked in eighth place.

3. 科技厌恶症。