Duncan, provides a translation on facing pages and notes which embody the scholarship of a lifetime.

ECONOMIST: Sir Walter Scott

Richmond Lattimore's translation, originally from 1951, has been reissued with scholarly notes and a new introduction.

ECONOMIST: Homer��s ��Iliad��

Mr McFarland notes that some people try to game the Turk, by using software scripts to download a translation assignment, pass it through an online translation service such as AltaVista's Babel Fish, and then offer it up as finished work.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

The company notes that based on current foreign-exchange rates, particularly with the euro, it expects foreign currency translation to have a negative impact on earnings per share for the full year, even though the currency impact in the second quarter is expected to be minimal or null.

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