CAREER diplomats and bankers rarely add glamour to arts events, but they did so at the five-day Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan, India, that ended on January 25th.

职业外交家和银行高管为艺术活动增彩，实属少见；然而在印度拉贾斯坦邦，为期五天的斋浦尔文学节上，他们却留下了光环。

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But diplomats, too, increasingly find a globe-hopping career hard to combine with a traditional family life.

但外交官们也日益发现，一份奔波于全球的职业同传统的家庭生活很难兼具。

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Career diplomats might be thought congenitally incapable of planning a war against anyone.

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Military officers and diplomats in mid-career were sent there to sort out simulated conflicts, from the first explosion of violence to the passing of resolutions in the Security Council and the imposition of a ceasefire.

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Our United States Congress of lawyers, doctors, diplomats, retired military officers and career politicians -- along with their staffs of intelligent young political science majors and MBAs -- now finds itself poring over "business plans" submitted this week by Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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