From NPR News in Washington. I'm Jack Speer. On Capitol Hill lawmakers are making plans to recoup the government bailout money that insurance giant AIG used to pay executive bonuses. NPR's Audie Cornish reports. After offering billions in rescue mon

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Before he went for office in 2003, Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a member of his household staff. According to a statement he gave the paper, (quote) After leaving the governor's office, I told my wife about this event which occurred over a de

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Explanation: The U.S. government has three branches (or parts): the executive branch which makes sure that people follow laws, the legislative branch which makes new laws, and the judicial branch which interprets laws (or decides what the laws mean a

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Explanation: The people who created the U.S. government wanted a way to make sure that no one branch (or part) of the government becomes too powerful. They built a system of checks and balances, also known as a separation of powers, into the Constitu

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JEFFREY BROWN: The housing market is showing more signs of mending from the depths of the foreclosure crisis. A new report from RealtyTrac finds banks are repossessing fewer homes than a year ago, and general foreclosure activity has declined for 22

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By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 29, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Many people have watched a dispute over the placement of a stone marker in the America

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阿根廷总统斥责法院阻止司法改革 BUENOS AIRES, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday rebuked the Supreme Court of Justice for blocking key parts of a judicial reform proposed by her administration. The co

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The unemployment rate drops to 9.5% as more unemployed Americans are left out of the count because they've stopped looking for jobs. As jittery public digest the government's jobs report for June, President Obama warns of more tough times ahead. We c

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CAIRO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's newly-appointed prosecutor general, Talat Ibrahim Abdullah, submitted his resignation to the head of Supreme Council of Justice on Monday, state TV reported. The resignation came hours after a fresh protest on Monda

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Science and Technolgy 科技 The science of justice 司法的学问 I think it's time we broke for lunch 该吃午餐了 Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack 法庭判决结果一定程度上取决于法官上一次吃点心的

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The Central Leading Group for Judicial Reform in China, which is a body that aims to coordinate and supervise reforms in the judicial system, has called for the whole country to work towards constructing a society governed by the rule of law. During

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在某些词组性质的习语中,所出现的介词在搭配上是固定的,如be consistent with, respond to , show insight into等。当某一空格后紧随一介词时,应尽快判断出在所代入的词汇中,何者与该介词搭配是合

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MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia on Monday criticized the U. S. 2012 report on human rights and accused it of applying double standards, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Russia believed the 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which wa

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WASHINGTON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Monday declined to comment on a whistle-blower who revealed details about two classified surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). White House spokesman Jay Carney said at the

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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of the vampires. 如果这个世界上有一份屡经证实的报告,那一定是关于吸血鬼的。 Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, 没有任何东

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例 Ⅰ: In 1921 Antioch College adopted a policy requiring students to____beyond their stacks of books and contribute their talents to the working world in order to earn their bachelor's degree. (A) rise (B) venture (C) probe (D) excel (E) strut 〖

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President Erdogan of Turkey has promised a relentless fight against terrorism after a car bomb killed at least 34 people in the center of Ankara. It's the third such attack in the capital in recent months. Mr. Erdogan said terror groups were targetin

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The wrongful conviction of Huugjilt is one of the most notorious cases of judicial injustice in China in the recent decades. The teenager was declared guilty of raping and then murdering a woman in a public toilet, and subsequently executed. He was p

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Explanation: When most people think of the United States, they think about the 50 states, but they often forget that other parts of the world are part of the United States, too. A U.S. territory is an area of land that belongs to the U.S. government

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The man convicted of the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon has apologised to the victims. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechnyan, was speaking in court before he was formally sentenced to death. Gary O'Donoghue reports. 在波士顿马拉松

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