Johnny asked Dotty how her first day in her Duarte ESL class was. It was terrible, she told him. She understood little of what the Level 4 teacher said. He spoke too fast for her. She had struggled through a Level 3 class at a Monrovia school. When t...
U.S. taxpayers have spent almost $51 billion on post-war reconstruction in Iraq. The inspector general for Iraq Reconstruction says much of this money was filtered to contractors with little government oversight, leading to massive fraud and little...
《生活不易》是2006年3月5日颁布的78届奥斯卡最佳电影歌曲的获奖作品、热播电影《川流熙攘》(Hustle Flow)的主题曲。歌中用了大量的口语与俚语的说唱,生动形象地勾画出一个社会底层的小混混的生活环境与心理状态:他徘徊在第七街区,他看到的是穷人没饭吃,是尔虞我...
Speaking in Brussels at the start of a two-day summit of European leaders, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was hopeful the 27-member group could unanimously agree on a banking-system rescue package based on the British model of recapitalizing fi...
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 21 April 2008 As in other developing countries from Egypt to Haiti, soaring inflation has recently emerged as a threat to Cambodia's hard won social stability. While wages have remained low, the prices of rice and other stapl...
By Cathy Majtenyi Masaai Mara National Reserve, Kenya 23 January 2008 Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in Kenya trying to negotiate an end to that country's violent political crisis. The violence began last month during Kenya's disputed pr...
By Adam Phillips New York 30 December 2007 News of the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Bhenazir Bhutto at a political rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday was a seismic event in that politically volatile nation. But Bhutto's murder also reve...
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By Larry London Washington 13 November 2007 Drowning Pool's 2001 debut CD, Sinner, featured Dave Williams, who died in 2002 of heart failure, just a day after performing at Ozzfest. The band's music has appeared in films like Saw III, The Punisher, a...
Close to home, another natural disaster is having a major impact on parts of the Midwest, it's one of the worst droughts in decades, thousands of Illinois farmers may lose as much as a third of their crops. And the federal government is expected to d...