Lesson Three Section One: News in Brief 1. IBM, following the lead of General Motors, announced today it's pulling out of South Africa. Like General Motors, IBM says it's selling its South African hol

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Mr Beevor is keener than Mr Hastings on detailing the horror. He is particularly vivid in describing the barbarities that became commonplace during the carnage on the Eastern front. Frozen German corpses littering the battlefield were frequently miss

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The majority of the civilian soldiers of the Western democracies, by contrast, just wanted to survive and return to normal life as soon as possible. That also meant that American and British generals had to eschew the dashing aggression of their Russ

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Do they really have bears as pets in Russia? Do they swim in icy water? Do they still play balalaikas and never ever smile to foreigners? Here you may learn something new about this weird country Russia. 俄国人真的把熊当成宠物吗?他们在

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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANYThe leaders of seven of the worlds most powerful countries agreed on Monday to toughen sanctions on Russia, if necessary, to press for a political solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. At the annual Group of Seve

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President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth. It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful presiden

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乌克兰年轻一代寻找新方向 KYIV, UKRAINE Ukraine is a very different country than it was just a week ago, following a protest movement led by young people who overthrew the Russian-backed government. They now want to take the country in a n

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday there is neither a desire for a return to a Cold War nor for a new conflict with Russia, and that economic sanctions are having an effect in countering Russian aggression in Ukraine. He spoke at a forum i

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1. A deadly stabbing has cast a shadow over the Olympic Games in Beijing. A suicidal man stabbed two tourists from Minnesota. Todd Bachman was killed, his wife Barbara hospitalized. Their daughter is a former Olympian, Elizabeth Bachman. She's marri

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Life and Fate《生活与命运》 War, peace and love战争、和平与爱情 Vasily Grossmans epic novel is transformed for the radio 瓦西里?格罗斯曼史诗般的小说被改编成广播剧 Sep 10th 2011 | from the print edition Vasily Grossm

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Georgia's history 格鲁吉亚的历史 Bad location 糟糕的位置 Despite its unhappy history and dire geography, Georgia is doing well 虽然历史坎坷,位置糟糕,格鲁吉亚现在做得不错 Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. By Do

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Belarus has executed two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protests from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial. Belarussian news media reported Saturday that Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov, both 25, ha

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Leaders 社论 The new world order 国际新秩序 The post-Soviet world order was far from perfect, but Vladimir Putin's idea for replacing it is much worse 后苏联时代世界秩序远不够完美,普京构建新秩序的想法却更糟 IN PEOP

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For diplomat Im Cheon Il, there has never been a better time to invite Russian children to spend their holidays at a North Korean youth camp. 对朝鲜驻俄罗斯东部使节Im Cheon Il来说,没有比眼下更适合邀请俄罗斯孩子到朝鲜青

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美国的制裁不会阻止俄罗斯 WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- As the U.S. considers implementing additional sanctions against Russia over the latter's recent moves in Ukraine's Crimea, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday tha

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A day of commemorations has begun in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German ba

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A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship. (John Davision Rockefeller, American businessman) 建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。美国实业家 洛克菲勒 J. D. Advertisin

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October 8th, 1967, after 11 months on the run, Che Guevaras dreams of revolution have come to a bloody end in the Bolivian jungles. We knew Che have been taken prisoner, we planned an escape to get out and report what had occurred, the truth about Bo

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Why are these people now less likely to take their own lives? Urbanisation and greater freedom have helped. 为何这三类人自杀几率变低?城市化和更多自由起到了帮助作用。 Accounts of those who attempt suicide, and of the rela

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thread n.(缝衣服的)线;头绪 Do you have a needle and thread I can borrow? 你有针和线可以借我吗? I missed a few words, so I lost the thread of what you were saying. 我错过了几个字,因此我弄不懂你在说什么。 T

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