For them I was still the Soviet chess champion and the idea that I was an "American agent" sounded as ludicrous as it is.

对他们来说，我还是那位苏联的国际象棋冠军，说我是一位“美国的内奸”，听上去就令人发笑的。

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South of the border, however, the idea of a national champion is dead.

然而，国家保护主义的思想在南边没有意义。

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But now, the idea has a new champion in Sen.

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Dodd continues to champion an idea of creating a super regulator for bank safety and soundness, combining the supervisory roles of the two existing national bank and thrift regulators with the bank regulation duties of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve.

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The current champion of that idea is Robert Mundell, winner of 1999's Nobel Prize for Economics and a professor at Columbia University who advised the European Union for 30 years, right up through the adoption of the euro in 1999.

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