So Mr Glaeser wonders, heretically, whether central Paris might have benefited from a few skyscrapers.

所以格莱泽试图了解，巴黎市中心的摩天大楼是否使其获益。

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Heretically for a Republican, he favours background checks for those who buy guns at gun shows.

ECONOMIST: The Nine strike down a gun ban and delight the firearms lobby

Mitt Romney, the slash-and-burn governor of Massachusetts, has raised hackles in academia by proposing to privatise, in large part, three campuses at the University of Massachusetts, to revamp its Amherst flagship campus with money from more out-of-state students and most heretically to do away with the office of the university president (currently occupied by one of his political foes).

ECONOMIST: State universities