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1. The penalty phase opened Tuesday in the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Nearly two weeks ago, jurors convicted Tsarnaev of all 30 charges against him. Now he faces either the death penalty or life in prison. 2. Federal regul

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Though Nineveh and Babylon are gonetheir names are not even on the mapthere are today two big cities on the Tigris that are very much alive, with people living in them. 尽管尼尼微和巴比伦已经不存在了连它们的名字在地图上也找不

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That's how we ended this conversation, which later was to have such serious consequences. 这次谈话谈到这里就结束了，后来发生很严重的后果。 At first, I must say, events seemed to confirm my forecasts, much to the Canadian's des

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Carthage could not possibly tolerate such competition. The young rival must be destroyed lest the Carthaginian rulers lose their prestige as the absolute rulers of the western Mediterranean. The rumors were duly investigated and in a general way thes

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