A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'

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By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 30 June 2006 A Kuwaiti woman, left, casts her vote at a polling station in Salwa, Kuwait City, June 29, 2006 Women candidates have failed to win a single seat in the Kuwaiti parliament in the first election where th

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The spring season of the latter years of high school are an anxious time when students will , choose one: fall in love, drink too much, or whatever's available, work really hard, slack off, make your hopes soar, dash them to the depth or all of the a

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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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Emma went downtown. She had to take a test. It was a big test. It was her citizenship test. It was her test to become a U.S. citizen. The test had 100 questions. She had studied all 100 questions. She knew the answers to all 100 questions. She knew t

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2006 At least three aid agencies received letters from the Eritrean government this week directing the agencies to terminate their work in the country. The letters c

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o

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By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 28 June 2006 Kuwaiti voters will go to the polls Thursday in a historic parliamentary election. Women will be allowed to vote for the first time, and 28 women are running for office. ------------ Rola Dashti's campa

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By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 29 June 2006 In Kuwait, women turned out in large numbers to exercise their newly won right to vote. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Kuwait City on the parliamentary election, in which 28 women al

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Britain says Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe can expect more pressure from the international community due to the deteriorating situation in his country before Friday's presidential runoff vote. A senior official in London also says Britain supp

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It is a four-day weekend in the U.S. capital city of Washington, with a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday and Inauguration Day on Tuesday. The significance of the back-to-back holidays honoring the slain civil rights leader and the

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Poor schools, stereotypes, workplace classroom barriers hold people back Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 26 March 2010 Mae Jamison, former astronaut [left], promotes science literacy across the United States to produce more scientists and educate yo

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International aid groups are trying to stop the the spread of cholera in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, where many earthquake survivors live in makeshift camps and filthy slums. Cholera strikes so fast it is sometimes called the lightening disease.

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By Michael Bowman Washington 12 April 2007 A U.S. citizen has been arrested in Ohio and charged with conspiring to support terrorist activities both at home and abroad. VOA's Michael Bowman has details from Washington. Photograph of Christopher Paul,

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 03 January 2006 Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye hit the campaign trail Tuesday following his release from prison on

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 07 June 2007 A massive security operation is being organized in Rome for the arrival of U.S. President Bush on Friday evening. Thousands of police officers will be deployed in the city and the air space will be closed as a

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 10 November 2007 Belgium has been called an artificial country, a conglomeration of three individual states that have no real affinity for each other: Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and a small German-speak

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By Steve Herman Islamabad 07 March 2008 Pakistan, in the midst of an attempt to form a new government, will see the parliament convened within two weeks. President Pervez Musharraf says he will call the national and provincial assemblies together and

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By Efam Dovi Accra 07 February 2007 In Ghana, Monday's sentencing of an opposition member of parliament to 10 years in prison for fraud has raised political tension between the government and the biggest opposition party. The National Democratic Con

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