The United States Justice Department on Thursday sided with Asian-American students suing Harvard University over its consideration of race in admissions. The department said in a court filing Thursday that Harvard has failed to demonstrate that it d

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AS IT IS 2014-10-01 US Signs Security Agreement with Afghanistan The United States has welcomed the signing of a Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan. US officials are calling the agreement, an important step in strengthening the strategic p

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AS IT IS 2015-12-31 Bill Cosby Charged With Sexual Assault 比尔考斯比被控性侵犯 Prosecutors in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania have brought criminal charges against celebrity Bill Cosby. Cosby, an American comedian, is charged with sexually

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the man accused of prisonning three women roughly ten years is behind bars this hour held on eight million dollars bound. standing silent with head down, xx was arraigned today in the xx courtroom where the charges against him will read aloud. xx has

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1. depress,沮丧的,消沉的,忧郁的。 eg:She was depressed to learn of her illness. 她得知自己患病,心情十分抑郁。 2. chronic,(形容疾病)慢性的,(形容人)久病的;片段中提到的 chronic sicknesses指慢性病,慢性

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We are a country that is in the development and we value the investment of China to our country. Rwandan Finance Minister John Rwangombwa praises the flow of Chinese investment into his country. Between 2005 and 2009, Rwanda-China trade increased fiv

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by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Raiders of the Lost iPhone! And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. In fact, we b

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Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sinsby Craig DuncanMarch 2005: its official vice pays. And its not even illegal. This month the Financial Times examined the spectacular growth of The Vice Fund, a Texas-based investment company which encourages

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The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. 东升旭日的金黄指头探进清晨的朦胧白雾, A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. 一片

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Syria and Russia say the United States has lied about chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian conflict as a way of blocking efforts to end the fighting. A Syrian foreign ministry source condemned what it called lies and allegations by U.S. Secretary o

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Vietnam Tries Former Oil Company Officials Vietnam is trying 22 business leaders on corruption charges, including a former top Communist Party official. The trial is part of the campaign against corruption by Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen

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Supreme Court Nominee: 'False' Assault Accusations Will Not Stop Him Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appeared on American television Monday to say he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time in his life. 最高法院提

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AS IT IS 2014-11-08 Turkey May Change Property Seizure Law Turkish lawmakers are expected to approve legislation soon that would affect property rights. The measure would permit police to seize property from people accused of plotting against the gov

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今天我们要学的词是refute. Refute is spelled r-e-f-u-t-e, refute. Refute 的意思是驳斥,反驳。比如,I was able to refute his argument. 我反驳了他的观点。A new discovery by archaeologists refutes the idea that the Mayans p

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今天我们要学的词是spoiler。 Spoiler, 是指拆台的人。美国消费者权益倡导者拉尔夫.纳德再次宣布竞选总统。Nader has been called an election spoiler, 纳德一直被称为竞选的搅局者。 不过,在接受媒体采

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China urges U.S. politicians to stop making groundless accusation against China China urges U.S. politicians to view China's development in an objective and rational way, stop making groundless accusation against China and contribute more to China-U.

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An Iranian nuclear physicist has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle. Iranian prosecutor general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agencies. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the

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(Christy的上诉由于证据不足被法官驳回,这时意想不到的来了个大反转:刚刚趾高气扬步出法庭的Mr. Mckeon因强奸罪被法警铐走) 法官的原话有所删减 accuse [ə'kjuːz] v. 指控, 控告 accusation [kjuː'

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The Chinese government has dismissed a report by a U.S. computer security company accusing a secretive Chinese military unit of being behind a series of hacking attacks. The report by Mandiant identified a Shanghai based unit of the People's Liberati

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The issue garnered widespread attention after a tourist named Chen Yan claimed he was charged over 10-thousand yuan for a feast at a restaurant featuring wild fish. Chen posted the bill to his Sina Weibo account, showing the price of the Huso sturgeo

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