Doug Levine Forty-three-year-old jazz vocalist John Pizzarelli is one of today's top interpreters of the Great American Songbook. He's also a gifted composer and guitarist. This year John is celebrati

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虚拟的美国大学广为世界人民流传 The Midwest farm state of Iowa is so proud of its string of blue-water lakes - the Okoboji Lakes- that it calls them Iowa's Great Lakes. They're ringed by resorts, marinas, and fishing cabins.And they're

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The annual Shanghai Book Fair has returned, and as it celebrates it's tenth anniversary, organizers say the week-long event has attracted a growing number of international literary A-listers. Yun Feng takes us to Shanghai for more. The weeklong Shang

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Land of the Midnight Sun 芬兰 圣诞老人的家乡 One of the lands of the midnight sun, Finland has much more to offer than the cold nights, saunas, and skiing it is often associated with. Visitors are enchanted by charming villages alongside sop

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By John Stevenson Washington 02 May 2007 Internationally renowned cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, died Friday, April 27 in Moscow at age 80. The great cellist spent much of his life in the United States after he was formally exiled from

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1. Still no word on the fate of an American journalist who's been kidnapped in Iraq. Jill Carroll's abductors set a Friday deadline for killing her unless all Iraqi women being held in military custod

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By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 23 July 2007 A group of Muslim women from around the world is participating in a summer leadership program at the U.S Congress and George Washington University. The program is designed to educate the participants abou

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Angola's Economic Boom Has Winners and Losers The city has become a big construction site. Everywhere in Luanda, new buildings are rising from the ground, as a ballet of cranes is shaping the new skyline of the capital. Luanda is busy leaving the pas

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Custom Homes Set New Standard for Injured US Soldiers A pretty, yellow house in a residential suburb of Northern Virginia may look like a typical American home from the outside. But inside, it's anything but. Almost every aspect of this light and spa

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UN Spearheads Drive to Protect Journalists After Deadly 2012 When shells fell on the Syrian city of Homs in February 2012, a building used by foreign media took a direct hit - killing renowned Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin, along with Frenc

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Violinist Eddie South may not be a household name, but among his peers, he was a giant of the jazz world. The former classical music prodigy whose distinctive style was the inspiration for a new tribute album by Violin Jazz. The music of Eddie South,

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News and analysis from an African American perspective Art Chimes | Washington, DC 19 February 2010 Related Links The Root February is African American History Month here in the United States, and so this week we feature a site that looks at news and

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亚伯拉罕林肯遇刺150周年 葬礼重现世人表达缅怀之情 150 years ago on a wind-swept spot near Lake Michigan in Chicago, the coffin holding the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln began a somber return to his hometown of

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Yang Ting is a tourist from Beijing. She is among the numerous visitors who consider the St. Paul's Cathedral as a must-see in Macao. I definitely want to see the Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral when visiting Macao since it is an integral part of its h

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With the success of online bookstores, many traditional bookstore chains have, in recent years, either declared bankruptcy or cut back their business activities. This has made many people wonder whether physical 'bricks and mortar' bookstores will so

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A 4K restoration of the classic film Yellow Earth premiered this week in Beijing. The film marks China's first success in applying the technology of 4K restoration to classic films. Sun Xianghui is the head of the China Film Archive, which is behind

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By George Dwyer Washington 02 November 2007 Afghanistan, a nation once renowned for its artists and intellectuals, has again begun to sprout a vibrant arts movement. For years, artistic expression was stifled in the war-torn nation by religious extre

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今天我们要学的词是 per se. Per se是自身,本身的意思。Google claims that Google+ is not a social media per se. 谷歌声称,Google+ 并非完全意义上的社交媒体。Web bloggers are not journalists per se. 网络博主们并非

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Maupassant: The Secret of Writing 莫泊桑:写作的秘籍 He always longed to make literature his career. Many critics have called him the Allan Poe of France. Many cite him as one of the progenitors of the modern short story. Much of his work is

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Finishing his investigations, Dillon stayed at the site of the casualty until the month of October. 狄勇为了使自己所获得的材料更完备起见,他在这遇难的地方留下,一直到同年十月。 Then he left Vanikoro, headed towar

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