CNN 2012-01-20（在线收听） |
Controversy involving pardons issues by the governor of Mississippi.A pardon releases criminals from guilt.The President can grant pardon to federal criminals and many states governors have that power as well.Mississippi governor Haley Barbour handed out 200 pardons this week.Most of these people are already out of jail. Governor Barbour said the pardons were intended to help those people find jobs or to register to vote.But some of the pardons went to convicted murders.They are supposed to contact prison officials everyday but four of them took off.A state official said that they may start a man-hunt to track them down.The judge has issued a ruling stopping the release any other prisoners.He said some of the pardons including the ones for the four murders did't meet certain requirements.There's been are lots of debates around this story.What we are asking on our blog is thisWhat factors should President or governor taking into account when considering giving someone a pardon?We are interested here in your thoughts at CNN student news.com Is this Legit,the Caribbean nation highlighted on this map is Jamaica. Not true.This is Haiti,which takes up about one third of the island of HY.
Well,yesterday we talked about the devastation Haiti suffered when a powerful earth quake hit the country in 2010.Two years later,things are getting better but as you gonna see in this next report from Johnason Man that the recovery process has been slow.
Haiti has been so poor for so long.It was hard to imagine that things could get much worse.And two years ago that hard to imagine happened.A 7.0 magnitude killed estimated 220,000 people,made 1.5million more people homeless and turned Port-au Princess the capital into a sea of displaced families and crumbled cement.Isolated cases of *turned into a national epidemic.Things were bad before.Suddenly,they were utterly broken.The best hope was then in a phrase that Haiti would build back better. Somethings are better.The International community has spent more than 2 billions through they promised twice as much.It helps move more than a million Haitians out of crowds on Senatey Camps. It's build hundreds of kilometers of pages roads.Have a look at this stretch of street.On the left,the after mass of quake.On the right,a look three month ago.
..that UN has built 193 new earth quake-resistance schools.They helped 753 children back to schools and that does't mean that there are challenges that remain.They are huge but there are reasons for opportunism.
But half a million people are still living under tense and .. and Haiti is still a nation where most people don't have running water,toilet,medical care or jobs.About three quarters of the country's workers are unemployed or under employment.It's still Haiti.There is being no happy ending.JM reporting.
Following up the story we first reported on Monday.Cargo ship that run around New Zealand has split in two.The officials were concerned that the thing could lead to new oil spill and that's exactly what happened.The ship leap around 300 tons of oil when it first crushed last October. Now it dumped ten more tons of oil into the water. Hundred of* have gone over the board.Some debris from the ship washed up the local beach early this week. Officials described the reck was highly unstable. |
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