And then there's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep youn

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The Divine Image 象形的神 To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight 受苦受难的人都祈求仁慈、怜悯、爱与和平:而对这些使人喜悦的德行 Return their thankfulness. 又报以

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Then there was The Daily Show. 接着,有个每日秀的节目出现了。 On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest with myself about my own bigotry 每一晚,乔恩斯图尔特催促我诚实面对自己的偏见,

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Chapter 4 - Pierre's conversation with Princess Marya Princess Marya as she sat listening to the old mens talk and faultfinding, understood nothing of what she heard; she only wondered whether the guests had all observed her fathers hostile attitude

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Chapter 2 - Napoleon crosses the Niemen On the twenty-ninth of May Napoleon left Dresden, where he had spent three weeks surrounded by a court that included princes, dukes, kings, and even an emperor. Before leaving, Napoleon showed favor to the empe

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Chapter 16 Well, thats all! said Kutuzov as he signed the last of the documents, and rising heavily and smoothing out the folds in his fat white neck he moved toward the door with a more cheerful expression. The priests wife, flushing rosy red, caugh

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Chapter 2 - Summary of the campaign The forces of a dozen European nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino. The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goa

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Chapter 9 - Pierre returns to Moscow Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself falling asleep, but suddenly, almost with the distinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groan

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Chapter 24 - Rostopchn On the evening of the first of September, after his interview with Kutuzov, Count Rostopchin had returned to Moscow mortified and offended because he had not been invited to attend the council of war, and because Kutuzov had pa

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Chapter 13 - Marya Hendrkhovna In the tavern, before which stood the doctors covered cart, there were already some five officers. Marya Hendrikhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing jacket and nightcap, was sitting on a broad bench in the

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Chapter 4 - The bombardment of Smolnsk Bald Hills, Prince Nikolai Bolkonskys estate, lay forty miles east from Smolensk and two miles from the main road to Moscow. The same evening that the prince gave his instructions to Alpatych, Dessalles, having

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Chapter 5 - The retreat From Smolensk the troops continued to retreat, followed by the enemy. On the tenth of August the regiment Prince Andrey commanded was marching along the highroad past the avenue leading to Bald Hills. Heat and drought had cont

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Let's go back to 1957. 让我们回到1957年。 Representatives from six European countries had come to Rome to sign the treaty that was to create the European Union. 六个欧洲国家的代表来到罗马,签署成立欧盟的条约。 Europe wa

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Ceasefire Agreement Reached after Four-Way Marathon Talks Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the announcement after marathon talks in the Belarussian capital, Minsk. First, we agreed on the end of firing from midnight on the 15th of February.

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And among those 1.6 million new businesses will be the future Alibaba, the future Huawei, 在这160万个新企业中会有未来的阿里巴巴、未来的华为 the future Wanda and perhaps the people running them are in this room today. 和未来的

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Chapter 30 - The Rostvs at Mytshchi The glow of the first fire that began on the second of September was watched from the various roads by the fugitive Muscovites and by the retreating troops, with many different feelings. The Rostov party spent the

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A beastly business 一个残忍的行业 Peaceful protests against animal testing are on the rise 反对动物实验的和平抗议活动正在高涨 A FOG of confusion shrouds British attitudes to animals. For a nation of pet-lovers, Britain has sur

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President Xi Jinping left Beijing Tuesday morning to visit Middle East. He will elaborate on Chinas policies to boost peace and development in the Middle East during his first overseas trip of the year, which starts on Tuesday. 1月19日上午,国家

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WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday discussed over the phone regional security issues and the stalled Middle East peace process. They agreed to continue the close coordi

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War and Peace - Book One: 1805 by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 1 - Anna Scherers soiree Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you dont tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the in

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