Welcome to This I Believe and NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. I believe in figuring out my own way to do things. I believe in the power of numbers. I believe in Barbeque. Well, I be...
By Paula Wolfson White House 28 May 2007 Americans are honoring the nation's military war dead on this Memorial Day holiday in the United States. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports President Bush led observances at Arlington National Cemetery. This is the d...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 08 May 2007 In Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, government officials are trying to understand and stop a rise in honor killings. The Kurdish government has overturned Iraqi laws that allowed relatives to kill women who were p...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 15 February 2007 The U.S. Academy Awards for actors and others in the film industry will be presented in Hollywood February 25, but the motion picture academy has already honored technical innovators who work behind th...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 16 January 2007 The thriller Babel and the musical Dreamgirls won top honors in Hollywood's Golden Globe awards, Monday. Mike O'Sullivan has more on the annual awards from Los Angeles. California governor and superstar...
By Barry Unger Washington, D.C. 15 January 2007 watch MLK Holiday report Americans are celebrating the life of African-American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday today (1/15) with ceremonies and tributes across the nation. K...
By Paula Wolfson White House 01 January 2007 Americans are paying a final tribute to former President Gerald Ford, who died last Tuesday at the age of 93. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports his body is lying in state at the U.S. Capitol in advance of funer...
General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps! As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, Where are you bound for, General? And when I replied, West Point, he remarked, Beautiful place. Have...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, D.C. 16 May 2006 watch report on Gibran Awards The Lebanese-American poet, painter and philosopher Kahlil Gibran lived and wrote in the United States in the late 19th...
标准英语,VOA,America,civil,leaderBy Paula Wolfson Washington 16 January 2006 President Bush, foreground, views the the Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives building Monday Americans honor the life and legacy of the slai...