Despite such worries, the car exchange is likely to succeed, argues Philip Evans, of the Boston Consulting Group, if for no other reason than that the car industry is so unusual.

ECONOMIST: Seller beware

In an earlier crime known as the Craigslist killing, a Boston medical student named Philip Markoff was charged with shooting to death one woman and robbing another.

WSJ: Toll of Alleged Online Plot May Rise to Three

If Latin America's universities are to flourish their governance must be reformed, says Philip Altbach, director of the Centre for International Higher Education at Boston College in the United States.

ECONOMIST: Universities in Latin America