Well, students struggling to make ends meet, but so are schools. We've talked about this for months now and budget cuts mean your kid could soon have more classmates. How many more? The sky's the limit in Georgia where the state Board of Education ha

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Confusing accents and odd public transport habits have beenlisted among the biggest culture shocks for people moving tothe UK. 难懂的口音和奇怪的公共交通习惯双双跻身外国人到英国后感受到的最大文化冲击之列。 Users

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The Pursuit of Happiness 《当幸福来敲门》 hit or miss 不确定的 cut out for it 天生合适 self made 白手起家 Some examples of people who really went from rags to riches: 在美国,一些人白手起家的例子: Howard Schultz, t

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Blacks Set Out in Search of a Better Life in 1920s American SocietyBy David Jarmul Broadcast: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in S

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AS IT IS 2015-12-22 What Is the 2015 Word of the Year? 2015年的年度词汇是什么? The American dictionary Merriam-Websters 2015 Word of the Year is not even a word. It is a three-letter suffix: -ism. -Ism is a noun suffix. Merriam-Webster.com d

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Sharing Your Gifts with the World at the University of Denver Kwame Wiredu thought he had all the education he would need when he successfully completed his medical degree program. The 28-year-old is from the city of Kumasi in the West African nation

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Senate Democrats are endorsing a two-week spending bill aimed at averting a partial government shutdown on Friday. This is the House near the vote on budget cuts to keep the government operating. US war

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VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we finish telling about the life of Langston Hughes, known as the poet voice of African Americans. He was one of the most import

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Do Student Athletes Have Any Power? 学生运动员有什么权力? Several weeks of student protest and a six-day hunger strike over the handling of racial tension on a college campus resulted in nothing. Last weekend, a group of black football play

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Racism Conference Opens with a Flourish Challiss McDonough Durban, South Africa 31 Aug 2001 The World Conference Against Racism, 1)Xenophobia and Related 2)Intolerance has opened in South Africa after

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' Voices of Victims ' at Durban Racism Conference Challiss McDonough Durban 5 Sep 2001 01:19 UTC The U.N. anti-racism conference in South Africa has been 1)dominated by the Middle East issue. But othe

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UN Rights Official Upbeat on Race Conference Challiss McDonough Durban 4 Sep 2001 U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson says the World Conference Against Racism is back on track despite the 1)p

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Assuming their controls are adequate, that would still leave 90% of the wage difference between white workers and ethnic minorities, which was recently estimated to be 14%, unexplained. 假设他们的控制条件相同,那么白种人员工和少数

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MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Uruguay's President Jose Mujica on Thursday expressed his solidarity with the country's world famous soccer player Luis Suarez, who has got himself involved in a spat on accusations of racism against French player Patr

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1. Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates 塔-内荷西科特《世界与我之间》 This work is something to behold. Between the World and Me is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in

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Some 40 World leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are expected to attend a huge march in Paris to show unity after three days of terror that left 17 people

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12 Ways to Help Make MLKs Dream a Reality Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, a federal holiday. We remember Dr. King as a civil rights leader, a rousing speaker,and an advocate of non-violent resistance. Best remembered of all

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A question has been posed in a puzzled whisper in many of the nations living rooms and newsrooms ever since Donald Trumps triumph in this months presidential election: What, exactly, is white nationalism? 自唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)在本月的

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Malcolm X, a.k.a. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a black American activist who had a lasting impact on race relations in America. His speeches and political work helped bring to the worlds attention the evil of racism in the USA. He led an extraordina

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Hello, I'm Justin Greene with the BBC news A video sent to the Nigerian government by the Islamist group Boko Haram appears to prove that some of the 276 girls kidnapped two years ago in the town of Chibok are still alive. The images apparently filme

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