Soon after we returned from Europe, Bill offered to take me on another journey―this time to the place he called home. Bill picked me up at the airport in Little Rock on a bright summer morning in late June. We made our way through the Arkansas Rive

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The years 1978 through 1980 were among the most difficult, exhilarating, glorious and heartbreaking in my life. After so many years of talking about the ways Bill could improve conditions in Arkansas, he finally had a chance to act when he was electe

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I clearly expected to work for a living, and I was lucky to have parents who never tried to mold me into any category or career. In fact, I dont remember a friends parent or a teacher ever telling me or my friends that girls cant do this or girls sh

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Each summer, as children, my brother and I spent most of August at the cottage Grandpa Rodham had built in 1921 about twenty miles northwest of Scranton in the Pocono Mountains overlooking Lake Winola. The rustic cabin had no heat except for the cas

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Bill Clinton was hard to miss in the autumn of 1970. He arrived at Yale Law School looking more like a Viking than a Rhodes Scholar returning from two years at Oxford. He was tall and handsome somewhere beneath that reddish brown beard and curly man

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The forty-four attorneys involved in the impeachment inquiry worked seven days a week, I was twenty-six years old, awed by the company I was keeping and the historic responsibility we had assumed. Doar was committed to running a process that the publ

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Neither was willing to care for their children, so they sent their daughters alone on a 3-day train trip from Chicago to Alhambra in California to live with their paternal grandparents. My mother's grandfather, Edwin Sr., a former British sailor, le

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President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton each released video messages this week on the problem of bullying. Both messages centered on abusive behavior toward homosexuals. BARACK OBAMA: Like all of you, I was shocked and saddened by the

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Bill Clintons first election victory as Attorney General of Arkansas in 1976 was anticlimactic. He had won the primary in May and had no Republican opponent. The big show that year was the presidential contest between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. I

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Just as I was beginning the semester, Bills mothers husband, Jeff Dwire, died suddenly from heart failure. It was devastating for Virginia. Bill returned to the campaign trail after Jeffs funeral, and I explored life in a small college town. I had ne

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Should Hillary Clinton Be Worried? On the surface, the news is not good for Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator. Her popularity as a presidential candidate is dropping in opinion polls. At the same time, her competition is

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Sanders Giving Hillary Clinton a Run for Her Money When Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he was seeking the Democratic nomination, few people noticed. Senator Sanders represents Vermont, a state with the second-smallest population in the United

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 January 2008 Legendary adventurer Edmund Hillary has died at the age of 88. The New Zealander was the first man to climb the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Edmund Hillary made histo

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hillary Clinton didn't expect to lose the election. She spent the last several months trying to figure out what happened. And those two words - what happened - are the title of her new book out today. NPR's Tamara Keith covered Cli

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Clinton Foundation To Drastically Shrink If Hillary Clinton Is Elected KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In the Clinton Foundation is planning to spin off all its international programs if Hillary Clinton is elected president. The foundation has come under heavy

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Has Hillary Clinton Actually Been Dodging The Press? DAVID GREENE, HOST: There has been a lot of criticism of Hillary Clinton for failing to hold press conferences this year. Her last one - back in December. Last night in an interview with CNN, Clint

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By Kent Klein Washington 07 June 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton has abandoned her quest to become the first woman elected President of the United States. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, where Clinton called on an enthusiastic crowd of suppor

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By Jim Malone Washington 22 October 2007 The latest public opinion polls suggest U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is widening her lead for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination next year. In the first of a series of reports on the 2008 president

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希拉里即Hillary Clinton 将竞选美国总统,那么Hillary 是什么意思呢? Hillary 的意思与喜有关,表示cheerful, glad 快活的、高兴的,最终来自希腊语,它是Hilary 的变体,顺便可以学习三个词: hilar

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The South Ridge on Aoraki Mt Cook has been re-named Hillary Ridge. This is to honour Sir Edmund Hillary who was in the group of four climbers who were first to climb along that ridge to the top the mountain in 1948. It took them 7 hours. Aoraki Mt Co

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