Broadcast: August 15, 2004 ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life and music of American songwriter Cole Porter. ((MUSIC)) VOICE ONE: T

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FAITH LAPIDUS: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story today is called The Boarded Window. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. SHEP ONEAL: In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away fro

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Brain Damaged Woman's Parents Appeal to US Supreme Court 大脑受损妇女的父母上诉美国最高法院 Terri Schiavo's parents filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court , asking that her

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Maria: So do you believe in love at first sight? Alex: Yea, I think it does exist. I think you can have a sort of spark at first sight, but what I consider as love is a bit different to what that first kind of meeting would be. If you can having some

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Ex-music-video maker and Charlie's Angels director McG, ignoring the [dict]constraint[/dict]s of time and space, and the [dict]essential[/dict] insanity of the original trilogy, approaches Terminator Salvation far more seriously than the tone of prev

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kleptomania /ˌkleptə'meɪnɪə/ The millionaire who was caught shoplifting was found to be suffering from kleptomania. -- insane impulse to steal ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ n. 盗窃癖 那个因逛街

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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The man accused of kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Smart has been found guilty. Today, a jury convicted Brian David Mitchell eight years after he abducted Smart from her Utah home when she was 14. Smart is now 23 years old. NPR's Howard Berkes report

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1. American evacuees from Lebanon have arrived safely at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Airport officials say the evacuees are getting help, contacting relatives and making further tr

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1. Israeli warplanes bombard ed a port city in southern Lebanon. This six-storey building was leveled during the attack. No one was inside, but twelve people nearby were hurt. Israel considered Tyre t

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1. He has a conservative record and now a criminal one. But Larry Craig says his actions were misconstrue d, saying he should not have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges involving lewd conduct in a men's room. A citizen watchdog group wants an inv

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1. A tense day on the campus of Virginia Tech. It was put under a lockdown this morning after three children attending a summer camp in the campus, reported seeing a man holding something that looked like a gun. 2. Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36

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Why are you not reaching the success? 你为什么没有成功? You fear success. 你害怕成功 Forget fear of failure, its fear of success that kicks us the hardest. It's the darnedest thing, too the kind of thing that you don't imagine possible

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You wanted to see me, sir? 您要见我,先生 No. I didn't. 不,不想 In fact, this meeting isn't taking place. 这次会面你要当作压根没发生过 How long have you been head of security 你在奎恩集团当保安总监 at queen consol

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Love is a wizard.... It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it. 爱是魔法(巫术),她让人陶醉,让人沉浸,让人与世隔绝。她能在空气中产

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There are now more than fifty KIPP schools across the United States, with more on the way. 现在美国已经有50多家KIPP学校,但按照这种趋势发展,将来还会有更多家。 The KIPP program represents one of those promising new educ

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as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated

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Germany first 德国优先 Churchill and Roosevelt both agree on this strategy. 丘吉尔和罗斯福都同意这战略 Their primary objective is to defeat German. 他们的首要目标是击败德国 We have to bomb it. says Churchill. 我们得轰炸

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Great show.Great show for you tonight. 节目很精彩 今晚的节目很精彩 You are esily the best crowd of the week.I got to tell you. 你们简直是一周最佳嘉宾 真的 This woman's wearing a Norman shirt.He was here two days ago. 那女人

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