1. The highest newly ranked school is Université Paris-Dauphine at 57.

2. Two years ago, the AFI delayed voting on its year-end list to give critics a chance to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which it subsequently included on its list of the 10 best films of 2015. However, this year, the latest Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, which hits theaters on Dec. 15, was nowhere to be found on AFI's list.

3. Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (Big Machine)

4. Less than an hour ago the official manufacturing PMI for November came in at 49.6, the fourth consecutive month of contraction and below the 49.8 reading economists were looking for. Analysts at ANZ said, in relation to that PMI series:“With soft growth momentum and deflation pressures creeping up, we expect the authorities to further ease monetary policy and continue to implement an expansionary fiscal policy in order to prevent further slowdown of the economy in 2016.”

5. Any decision by China’s policymakers to begin selling down the country’s huge reserves would have a large impact on markets.

6. 我祖母最喜欢的一首诗是威廉o埃内斯特o亨利的《不可征服》（Invictus）。我父亲把这首诗挂在厨房墙壁上，所以在成长过程中，我每天都会读到它：“我，是我命运的主宰。我，是我灵魂的统帅。”我能为每个人，特别是初入职场者提供的最好建议，就是欣然接受你作为命运主宰的角色。当机会出现时，抓住机会并敢于说“Yes!”

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3. Spotify, the music streaming service, plans to list existing private shares directly on the New York Stock Exchange as soon as the fourth quarter rather than doing a formal IPO, while other large, well-known tech companies for now were seen as more likely prospects for 2018, bankers said.

4. Exports to both South Korea and Asean countries fell by about 3 per cent, however, while those to re-exporter Hong Kong dropped by more than 16 per cent.

5. 推进农业结构调整。

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2. Will the rest of the world cooperate?

3. "A total of 297 projects will be carried out in Tongzhou, such as building new subway lines and expressways, and improving ecologies," Lu Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, said at a news conference on Wednesday.