Noam Chomsky is an American author, lecturer, linguist, philosopher, and political commentator. He is a top professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His ideas completely changed teachers understanding of how we lea

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Today's topic is who versus whom. I've received three requests from listeners to cover this topic. Here's Noreen: I just wondered if possibly in one of your episodes you could go through the use of who versus whom. I think that's a common misundersta

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Who and whom have to be two of the most difficult words in English. Luckily, we've already spent two articles on the ins and outs. Unfortunately, though, some people are still confused. They may even find themselves agreeing with William Safire, who

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Grammar Girl here. It was almost exactly a year ago when I did the first show about who versus whom. In that show I only covered the simple cases, and lately I've been getting questions that made me think I should delve deeper into the topic. So toda

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 April 2007 Since 1984, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have helped build homes for the poor through a charitable group called Habitat for Humanity. As we hear from Mike O'Sullivan, the Cart

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BERLIN, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- German international and Bayern Munich's offensive all-rounder Thomas Mueller extended his running contract until June 2017, the club said in an official statement on Wednesday. Bayern Munich youth product Thomas Mueller e

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Over the weekend, the University of Mississippi rededicated the home of Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner following a 1.3-million-dollar restoration. Faulkner bought the antebellum house in 1930 and named it Rowan Oak after the qualities of the

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John Ydstie: On Wednesdays our business news takes a look at the workplace. Today, a perennial problem: when to put your foot down , say no to the boss, and choose life over work. That's one of the many questions Lisa Belkin explores in her column. S

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Michael Kitchen The head of the United Nations' refugee agency says security in Afghanistan is still inadequate and is asking the international community to increase its presence in the country. U.N.

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bikes are delivered to San Jose, Honduras through the Bikes for the World program Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mos

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By Alisha Ryu Kisumu, Kenya 21 January 2008 Uganda is strongly denying reports from Kenya that it has sent troops to help President Kibaki to quell opposition protests in the western part of the country. Anti-Ugandan sentiments are running high in th

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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 17 October 2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says her arrival in Pakistan on Thursday will mark the country's transition from dictatorship to democracy. In a televised address from Dubai carried live on major Pakis

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They did that restruction in 2012.They have brought themselves 3 to complete that restruction at which point they are going have to refinance.I think whether or not that will be succesful depends on another thing,whether or not they can make the cuts

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By Jeff Feuer Alexandria, Virginia 18 February 2008 Every year on the third Monday in the month of February, the United States observes what is known as President's Day as a celebration to honor America's first president, George Washington, and the 1

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