IN THE NEWS - Why Say Something Nice? US Elections Bring Out Attack AdsBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, November 04, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A picture from the negative a

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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - To Touch All Bases: Baseball Rules!By Mike Pitts Broadcast: Sunday, December 03, 2006 Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. (MUSIC) American English

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葡萄牙总理表示不会辞职 LISBON, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said Tuesday that he will not resign following the departure of Foreign Minister Paulo Portas earlier in the day. In a nationwide address at th

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George C. Marshall: The Marshall Plan 《欧洲复兴计划》的通称。第二次世界大战后美国争夺全球战略的重点—欧洲的扩张计划。1947年6月5日,国务卿G.C.马歇尔

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Political advertising 政治宣传 Posters aren't working 海报其实很无能 The pros and cons of Britain's favourite political campaign tactic 英国应用最广政治竞选策略之利弊 WHO really runs this country? UKIP poses that question on

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今天我们要学的词是chaos。 Chaos, 是一片混乱的意思。最近泰国政局动荡不安。 The tourism industry has been hit hard by Thailand's political chaos, 泰国政局的混乱使旅游业受到了沉重打击。 Hurricane Ike caus

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LA PAZ, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday said he was expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for meddling in internal political affairs. Speaking at a public rally commemorating Labor Day at La Paz's

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US treads careful path on Honduras 美国在对待洪都拉斯问题上小心翼翼。 US President Barack Obama has called the removal of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya on Sunday a coup. The ousted leader has been meeting US officials in Washington. But the US St

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ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people including a child were killed and 40 others injured on Friday night in a bomb blast that targeted a political meeting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said. Accordi

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Why Do So Many Foreigners Go to China and Think China Is Good? 为什么那么多外国人喜欢去中国,而且觉得中国很好? 获得226好评的回答@ Galano Han: One of the safest countries in the world. 世界上最安全的国家之一。

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This year's Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum has been held in Shanghai. It's a regular meeting between officials from the mainland and Taiwan. The discussions have focused mostly on cross-strait exchanges in science and technology, as w

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CAIRO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Standard and Poor's (SP) downgraded on Friday the long-term rating on Egypt from B+ to B due to sharp decline of foreign exchange reserves and political uncertainties. There would be further downgrade if the Egyptian govern

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Former NBA star Yao Ming said Monday that China's bold step to revive the popularity of football sport in schools was on the right track and could even raise envy from circles of other sports. 前NBA明星姚明3月9日表示,中国在校园重振足

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BEIRUT, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A hand grenade(手榴弹) was tossed late Saturday night at the residence of the son of former Lebanese(黎巴嫩) Prime Minister Omar Karami, an ally of Shiite armed group Hezbollah. Unidentified assailants tossed a ha

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Books and Arts; Book Review 文艺;书评 British politics;Backroom boy 英国政治; 幕后智者 In the Corridors of Power: An Autobiography. By David Lipsey. 《自传:在权力走廊》:作者David Lipsey。 Political memoirs generally do t

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After a tour of the old city of Havana, a ceremonial wreath-laying and warm handshakes, Barack Obamas historic visit to Cuba quickly shifted to the issue that has divided the two countries for most of the last six decades a sharp disagreement over po

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1.graduate from 从毕业 例句:He was graduated from this college 10 years ago. 十年前他从这个学院毕业。 2.retire from 退休 例句:I have decided to retire from Formula One racing at the end of the season 我已经决定在这个赛

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Banyan 菩提 The long arms of the law 法律的长臂 Across Asia, judges are having too much say in politics 在亚洲,法官对政治施加了过多影响 AFTER nearly three years, Yingluck Shinawatra's stint as prime minister of Thailand drew t

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: It seems politics didn't take much of a holiday break. From the ongoing turf war between outgoing President Obama and soon-to-be President Trump, to a new pledge this weekend to dissolve the Trump Foundation over possible conflicts

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The campaign for liberty advocates a cut in government spending,shutting down the IRS and a non-interventionist foreign policy,sound familiar? It mirrors the platform of Ron Paul who is now the GOP front runner in Iowa.Paul founded the campaign for l

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