EXPLORATIONS - Using Independent Courts and a Free Media to Fight CorruptionBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VO

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Many countries place limits on the amount of time a leader can serve in office. The need to change leaders after a limited number of terms in office is written into the laws of a number of countries. This is often because many people believe that lea

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Transparency International: Corruption Still a Problem in Africa African nations appear at the bottom of Transparency Internationals latest Corruption Perceptions Index. Transparency gave the East African nation of Somalia its lowest rating on the li

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Poor Afghanistan Three years after allied forces routed the ruling Taliban, living conditions in Afghanistan rank near the bottom of the 178 countries surveyed by the United Nations. According to the

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South Asian Pirates Back On the Rampage 南亚海盗狂暴而归 Piracy did not end with the demise of Blackbeard, the world’s most famous pirate, almost three hundred years ago. Despite the overall

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76 贪污腐败仍是非洲国家的主要问题 Corruption Still a Major Problem in Africa Barry Wood 27 Jun 2001 21:03 UTC Transparency International, the world anti-1)corruption organization, Wedne

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The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice(糯米)wrapped

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Miral, a new film by acclaimed director Julian Schnabel, is based on a book by Palestinian author Rula Jebreal. It chronicles the lives of four Palestinian women - from 1948 when the state of Israel was created to the 1990s. Through the four women, a

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Why is the news always so depressing? Every time I look at the news, I get sad. Its always war, death, killing, famine. Why cant news stations report happy news? They really dont have to bring us such terrible stories. I looked at the news last night

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Psychology 心理学 All power tends to corrupt 当权者都会腐化、败坏 But power without status corrupts absolutely 但出身卑微的当权者败坏的更彻底 DURING the second world war a new term of abuse ent

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;New thriller;Wreathed in smoke; 文艺;书评;新的惊悚小说;烟雾氤氲; The Golden Scales. By Parker Bilal. 《金色的区域》,Parker Bilal于布伦堡著。 Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight

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And I did not know but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about shipping hands, 而我不清楚 比勒达可能对于运营有很强的能力, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin

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The Feast of the Assumption is an important day in the Catholic religion. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ. This feast commemorates two events: the departure of Mary from the soul life and the assumption of

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72 秘鲁前情报局长官被捕 Peru's Ex-Spy Chief Returns Sharon Stevenson Lima 26 Jun 2001 06:04 UTC Peru's 1)disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, returned to Peru Monday after an eight-mon

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Ortega Aims for Nicaraguan Presidency, Again Catherine Elton Managua 8 Aug 2001 14:45 UTC A decade after he was 1)voted out of office in Nicaragua, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is asking Nicaraguan

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很精彩的英文报刊短句欣赏 1 05-23 1. The two leaders stated that both countries would develop good-neighborly and friendly relations on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is demanding that an independent special prosecutor immediately investigate Hillary and Bill Clinton's Clinton Foundation, saying the FBI cannot be trusted to do the job. 共和党总统候选人川普要求

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FIFA acknowledged last Wednesday that bribes were paid for votes in bids for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, and the organization is trying to recoup tens of millions of dollars in damages. 上周三,国际足联(FIFA)承认在1998年和2010年世界杯

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英语表达里的中国36计 1.瞒天过海crossing the sea under camouflage 2.围魏救赵relieving the state of Zhao by besieging the state of Wei 3.借刀杀人killing someone with a borrowed knife 4.以逸待劳waiting at ones ease for the exhau

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Bello 贝优 Lessons of a footballing Armageddon 足球大决战的教训 Brazil needs new ideas, on and off the pitch 巴西需要新的想法,无论是场内还是场外 THE only previous time that Brazil hosted the World Cup, in 1950, it famousl

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