1. All-cash buyers. Skittish lenders. Skyrocketing prices. Anemic listings. These realities haunt buyers, turning the house hunt into a demoralizing slog. Unfortunately, buyers will probably have to soldier through another year of a market that favors sellers.

2. Spanish business school IE has scored a hat-trick by reaching the top spot in the Financial Times ranking of online MBA programmes for the third year in a row. IE came in ahead of the UK’s Warwick Business School, ranked number two for the third year running, and Durham University Business School, which made it into the top three for the first time.

3. 本周二，高等教育研究机构Quacquarelli Symonds(QS)公布的最新《QS世界大学学科排名》显示，中国约有88所大学的学科进入全球400强。

4. The system for ensuring responsibility is taken for poverty elimination will be effectively enforced, the strictest possible evaluations and assessments of poverty alleviation will be carried out, and stern measures will be taken to address deception, falsification, and the manipulation of numbers in poverty elimination work. We must see that the results of our poverty elimination earn the approval of our people and stand the test of time.

5. "This is a hard one for people to understand how they're doing it, but it's an easy one for managers to pick up," Kay says. In many cases, you're disengaged, or as Kay describes it: "not being totally mentally present." Maybe you used to chime in a lot during meetings, and now you're quiet. Maybe you're not producing as much as you used to. Maybe you're not excited about a new project you've been asked to manage。

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1. Tomorrow Never Dies gets the other honorable mention on our James Bond theme song list.

2. 达奇斯说：星巴克在社交方面总是排名前列，2012年也不例外。公司通过社交在2012年赢得了1900万新的粉丝，它针对用户在家和出门的产品也成为用户津津乐道的谈资。

3. 《小镇疑云》，BBC America，3月4日播出。大卫·田纳特(David Tennant)携第二季归来，在这部引人共鸣的英国推理剧中继续饰演亚力克·哈迪(Alec Hardy)探员（去年他在美国翻拍版的《小镇疑云》[Gracepoint]中饰演埃米特·卡弗探员）。这部剧将于周一在英国首映，制作人们已经开始谈起第二季的秘密情节了，编剧克里斯·齐布纳尔(Chris Chibnall)在接受英国杂志采访时说的话可能会让剧迷不爱听，“第二季不是讲罪案的。”奥莉薇娅·科尔曼(Olivia Colman)继续饰演艾丽·米勒(Ellie Miller)探员，夏洛特·兰普林(Charlotte Rampling)和玛丽安娜·琼-巴普迪斯特(Marianne Jean-Baptiste)也加入了演员阵容。

4. Horowitz, speaking to radio station RTE, said he was keen to keep the new Bond true to the 1950s creation.

5. The World Cup, on the other hand, was searched for as both a sporting event and a cultural experience.

6. 包括加拿大在内的北美地区票房收入达到了111亿美元，同比去年上涨8%，这主要要归功于包括《侏罗纪公园》（本土票房6.52亿美元）、《复仇者联盟：奥创纪元》（4.59亿美元）、《头脑特工队》（3.56亿美元）等几部大卖影片。

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1. Additional reporting from Stefan Wagstyl in Berlin

2. Bank of China posted earnings per share of Rmb0.56, down from Rmb0.61, and a pre-tax dividend per share of Rmb0.175, down from Rmb0.19 last year.

3. 达奇斯说：捷蓝航空在2012年初遇到过很多困难（一名飞行员在飞行途中突然精神崩溃，这让公司这一年的开头极为艰难），但是在繁忙的假日旅行期间，顾客的满意和优秀的社交服务把这个品牌带入了成功的行列。