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发帖数: 61690 | 1 坚决贯彻，领会大统令的精神
An FBI official on Wednesday called the Sunday shooting at a gay nightclub
in Orlando, Fla., both a hate crime and an act of terror.
"This was an act of violence, born out of hate, that inflicted terror on an
entire community," special agent in charge Ron Hopper told reporters in
Florida.
"So I would call it a hate crime, I would call it terrorism — it's both,"
he added.
Officials have been grappling with how to characterize the attack early
Sunday after a man claiming allegiance t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 2 【 以下文字转载自 JobHunting 讨论区 】
发信人: beefcurtain5 (beefcurtain5), 信区: JobHunting
标 题: Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jul 1 17:17:34 2016, 美东)
An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they
’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,”
while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side
claim it’s a novel approach ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 3 华尔街鄙视英国了。
认为她在世界经济中无足轻重。
华尔街认为希望在中国。
Britain doesn’t matter to the global economy, China does
With all due respect, Britain doesn’t really matter that much.
To be sure it’s upsetting to see the UK political establishment—both major
parties—being torn asunder amid a significant turn inward for one of the
world’s great democracies.
But when we’re talking about the future direction of the global economy,
Britain has been playing a diminishing role for decades.
According to the IMF, the UK accounted... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7349 | 5 While To Kill a Mockingbird undoubtedly deserves its place in the classroom,
English teachers may do well to consider that it is a white author’s
perspective – and ought to be the mere beginning of a dialogue about race
and never the final word.
But as a gateway to more mature ideas, and as a YA distillation of complex
notions young people may not have grappled with before, Lee’s novel is
invaluable.
Today’s YA novels deal primarily with dystopian or supernatural themes,
but it’s To Kill a Mocki... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 6 OK, here here we go:
Trump selects Tillerson for State, dismissing Russia ties
JULIE PACE 21 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected Exxon Mobil CEO
Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department, dismissing concerns about the
businessman's close ties with Russia, two people close to Trump's transition
said Monday night.
Trump's decision caps a lengthy process that often played out in public and
exposed rifts within his transition team. It also sets Trump up for a
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发帖数: 61690 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 Joke 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Joke
标 题: 花木兰被华邮划成transgender了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 27 13:45:27 2017, 美东)
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: USANews
标 题: WP: transgender soldiers served in civil war
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 27 12:42:55 2017, 美东)
Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was
buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the
uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman, one
of the many ... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 10 影评家们高潮连连。票房会不会破纪录？将军们会去看吗？我对黑人没兴趣，所以不太
可能去看。
The Revolutionary Power of Black Panther
TIME Staff
The RevolutionaryPower of Black Panther
Marvel’s new movie marks a major milestoneBy JAMIL SMITH
The first movie I remember seeing in a theater had a black hero. Lando
Calrissian, played by Billy Dee Williams, didn’t have any superpowers, but
he ran his own city. That movie, the 1980 Star Wars sequel The Empire
Strikes Back, introduced Calrissian as a complicated human being who still
did the right t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5125 | 11 EU Is Ready to Fight Back Against China's Growing Trade Dominance
By Lyubov Pronina , John Follain , and Slav Okov
May 2, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
Bloomberg survey of EU28 shows investment screening is coming
Even those with reservations favor a debate on China strategy
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发帖数: 617 | 12 猪肉价格下跌，养猪场赔钱， 猪饲料也不要了。
Chinese importers rushed to buy Brazilian beans after Beijing proposed a 25
percent tariff on U.S. cargoes on April 4, but short-term purchases have
dried up since last week as the world’s top importer grapples with weak
demand at a time of abundant local supply, trade sources said.
“All the panic buying that we saw earlier in April has died down,” said a
trader at an international trading firm that runs oilseed processing
facilities in China.
“Demand for soymeal is very s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3770 | 13 There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can
live as if everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein
As a Taoist monk, much of what I learned from my teachers was passed down
from shamanic heritage throughout Asia. Communion with nature, “animal play
”, herbalism, energy practices, and purification through fire- these are
all rooted in shamanism. The Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, and all other great
traditions from the East come from these origins.
Shamanism lives in ... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 14 看来你还是不认英文：
你说说，文章标题怎么翻译？
Bankrupt America: Bankruptcy Soars As The Country Grapples With An
Unprecedented Debt Problem |
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发帖数: 5309 | 15 California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks
out about her allegation of sexual assault
Kavanaugh denies making unwanted sexual advances as an adult
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh denied committing sexual or physical harassment as
an adult when asked by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Sept. 5. (JM Rieger /
The Washington Post)
By Emma Brown
September 16 at 3:36 PM
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a
senior Democratic lawmaker alleg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 16 Stories: Trump’s Tariffs Betray Base
https://terribletariffs.com/stories/
Then there are the countless farmers and exporters who have seen their
markets dry up as trading partners impose retaliatory tariffs.
'47 Brand Hats: The Massachusetts company, which faces higher raw material
costs thanks to Trump's tariffs, cannot find domestic suppliers to produce
hats. It is considering job cuts to compensate.
5th Avenue Energy: This small California renewable energy firm found that
lighting fixtures an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 17 Is China Waiting Us Out?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-china-waiting-us-out/
While the U.S. bombs, Xi Jinping is building—one power play at a time.
By MICHAEL HORTON • October 22, 2018
Michael Hogue
The one constant in recent U.S. foreign policy—regardless of which party
occupies the White House or controls Congress—is that it prioritizes
military intervention, both covert and overt, to advance its interests
overseas. While President Barack Obama vowed to move the U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 18 Interview Transcript: Peter Navarro on US-China Talks, Trade
December 06, 2018 3:35 PM
VOA News
FILE - White House trade and economic adviser Peter Navarro, center, speaks
to the press at the White House, June 4, 2018.
Share
In an interview with VOA reporter William Gallo, White House trade and
economic adviser Peter Navarro says he remains optimistic about U.S.-China
talks, but warns that the Chinese government has a long record of breaking
its promises on trade.
QUESTION: "There was obviou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2469 | 19 EPA dropped salmon protection after Trump met with Alaska governor
By Scott Bronstein, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Ashley Hackett, CNN
Posted at 6:40 PM ET, Fri August 9, 2019
Play Video
EPA drops salmon protection after Trump meets with Alaska governor 04:50
(CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency told staff scientists that it
was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could
devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one
day after Presiden... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 20 Trump just blinked, giving China a possible edge in trade war, Jim Chanos
and others say
PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGOUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Kate Rooney
@KR00NEY
KEY POINTS
Some influential voices on Wall Street are saying Trump blinked in the
latest exchange with China and showed just how much pain the U.S. could
tolerate. China may use that to its advantage.
“Tell me why Xi should not continue to wait out The World’s Greatest
Negotiator, who keeps ‘dealing’ with himself?” says Jim Chanos, founder
and man... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 21 我可以看得到，copy paste将就看下吧
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Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?
A high-profile lawsuit against Harvard is forcing students and their
families to choose sides.
CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Photographs by Ronghui Chen
Published Aug. 28, 2019
Updated Sept. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 22 China's Paris embassy blasts France and EU over Hong Kong remarks
by RFI
media
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Sunday, 6 October 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
China's embassy in Paris on Monday slammed the France and the EU for what it
termed its "criminal" support for Hong Kong protesters and criticism of the
police clampdown.
Accusing the EU of having "publicly glorified the abuses of rioters", the
embassy said the EU's call for de-escalation and restraint was "criminal and
very dangerous" and amounted... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4151 | 23 他很骄傲自己是中国香港人，但有话对中国大陆学生说。值得一听。
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/10/wong-to-harvards-chinese-students/
To Harvard’s Chinese Students
By
Justin Y. C.
The first of October is the national day of China. This year, it was even
the 70th anniversary of the momentous day Mao Zedong proclaimed the
foundation of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square. Claiming
that “the Chinese people… have now stood up [against the] oppression and
exploitation by foreign imperialism and domestic reac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 24 By Wayne Ma
Nov. 19, 2019 7:01 AM PST
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Georgetown address about free speech last
month drew skeptical commentary from many quarters. But for one group of
Facebook workers—its community of Chinese employees—his comments touched a
particularly sensitive nerve. Zuckerberg’s criticism of Chinese video app
TikTok and China’s censorship of the internet renewed long-standing
complaints that Facebook’s management is biased against China, according to
one employee who saw me... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 25 https://time.com/5770140/millennials-change-american-politics/?utm_source=
facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content
=20200127&fbclid=IwAR36be58A6V9VvNGfu55yIWFvzqs8zNMpZsfrol02sAtggNde_
tGjMlveqI
How Millennial Leaders Will Change America
BY CHARLOTTE ALTER JANUARY 23, 2020
Love ’em or hate ’em, this much is true: one day soon, millennials will
rule America.
This is neither wish nor warning but fact, rooted in the physics of time and
the biology of human cells... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 26 航空业，游轮业也可以沾沾光
White House officials are considering deferring taxes for industries hurt by
the coronavirus outbreak, including the cruise, travel and airline
industries, among other options, two people briefed on the discussions said.
The talks remain fluid and are preliminary.
The discussions are a sign that the White House is grappling with the
economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, while publicly downplaying the
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发帖数: 6963 | 28 A 101-year-old Italian man born during the Spanish flu pandemic has
reportedly survived a coronavirus infection as the outbreak continues to
ravage his country and spread globally.
Gloria Lisi, the vice mayor of Rimini, a city on the coast of the Adriatic
Sea in the Italian north, said the man had been released from a hospital
earlier this week and returned to his family. She identified him only as Mr.
P.
"He made it. Mr. P. made it," said Lisi, according to the ANSA news agency.
Lisi said the m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2058 | 30 putin不是柔道的么，
他们这一对既能strike,又能grapple. |
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发帖数: 4174 | 31 Why timing is crucial in the ongoing same-sex marriage cases
Rutgers law professor Carlos Ball argues that it would be better for
marriage equality supporters if the Supreme Court hears a DOMA case before
it considers Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
The following is an essay for our same-sex marriage symposium by Carlos A.
Ball, professor at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark). Professor
Ball is the author of The Right to be Parents: LGBT Families and the
Transformation of Parenthood (NYU Pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 32 Written by Tanner Efinger | Monday, 07 November 2011
Instinct Magazine Web Exclusives: http://instinctmagazine.com
Gay Republican?! The thought exasperates even the more moderate of liberal
thinkers. It’s like a screen door to a submarine or an ejector button on a
helicopter! Or is it? Our political experts have cracked open a few history
books and mapped the political landscape and we think something’s amiss.
Perchance we’re playing the devil’s advocate, but we’ve got a sore spot
for the plight... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 33 A new Gallup poll finds that half of Americans believe same-sex marriages
should be legally recognized, the second time a majority has supported the
issue in a Gallup poll.
CNN reports on the poll, which found that 50% of respondents said same-sex
marriages should be recognized as legal, while 48% said the unions should
not be legal. This compares with last year’s Gallup poll that found 53% of
Americans in support, the first time that a majority favored the issue since
polling began in 1996. The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 34 WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama is urging the Illinois General Assembly
to legalize gay marriage in his home state as lawmakers are poised to take
up the measure as early as this week in Springfield.
"While the president does not weigh in on every measure being considered by
state legislatures, he believes in treating everyone fairly and equally,
with dignity and respect," White House spokesman Shin Inouye told the
Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.
"As he has said, his personal view is that it's... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 35 BBC Chinese, Jan 30, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china
/2011/01/110130_china_press_freedom.shtml
Note: 敢言：中国新闻自由2010年
Press release: New IFJ Report Outlines Restrictions on Journalists in China
in 2010. International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Jan 30, 2011.
http://asiapacific.ifj.org/en/articles/new-ifj-report
-outlines-restrictions-on-journalists-in-china-in-2010
("Voice of Courage: Press Freedom in China 2010, released today by IFJ Asia-
Pacific in Hong Kong, outlines more t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3205 | 36 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-link
Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China
BEIJING — Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature
deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global total, according to
a new summary of data from a scientific study on leading causes of death
worldwide.
Figured another way, the researchers said, China’s toll from pollution was
the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population.
The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3978 | 37 Onetime social media darling Digg reportedly sold for a paltry $500,000
By Patrick May and Peter Delevett
Mercury News
Posted: 07/12/2012
In a remarkable Silicon Valley rags-to-riches-to-rags saga, the onetime
social media darling Digg was sold Thursday for a reported $500,000, an
embarrassingly paltry sum given that Internet rock star Kevin Rose's company
had raised a total of $45 million in venture funding and was once valued at
more than four times that amount.
Digg's fall was spectacular in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 38 http://news.yahoo.com/americanised-world-needed-us-shutdown-chi
Beijing (AFP) - While US politicians grapple with how to reopen their
shuttered government and avoid a potentially disastrous default on their
debt, the world should consider 'de-Americanising', a commentary on China's
official news agency said Sunday.
"As US politicians of both political parties (fail to find a) viable deal to
bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good
time for the befuddled world to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 39 The Perils of Pay Less, Get More
As a society gets richer, its tax rates tend to rise.
More from NYTimes.com:
• The Future of the Deficit
• Corporate Debt Coming Due May Squeeze Credit
• As Lawmakers Grapple With Financial Overhaul, They Call for More
Studies
This idea is known as Wagner's Law, named for the 19th-century economist who
came up with it. Citizens of richer societies generally prefer more
government services, Adolf Wagner explained. With their basic needs met,
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-07-06-jobs06_ST_N.htm
Here's another headwind for a sputtering job market: State and local
governments plan many more layoffs to close wide budget gaps.
Up to 400,000 workers could lose jobs in the next year as states, counties
and cities grapple with lower revenue and less federal funding, says Mark
Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Economy.com.
The development could slow an already lackluster recovery. Friday, the Labor
Department said emp |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 31, 2011
When Obama started to speak about the need to improve education, upgrade our
schools and attract quality teachers, an elephant appeared in the living
rooms of most Americans who were watching. Obama never mentioned the beast,
but most of the country saw clearly the three letters on his back -- AFT.
American Federation of Teachers -- the union that, along with its
counterpart, the NEA, National Education Association, h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 As Brad Williams walked the halls of the California state capitol in
Sacramento on a recent afternoon, he spotted a small crowd of protesters
battling state spending cuts. They wore shiny white buttons that said "We
Love Jobs!" and argued that looming budget reductions will hurt the Golden
State's working class.
Mr. Williams shook his head. "They're missing the real problem," he said.
The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a
cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams sai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was ordered held
without bail Monday after Manhattan prosecutors charged him with seven
counts stemming from allegations he sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper—
a decision that sends one of the towering figures of international finance
and French politics to a jail cell on New York's Rikers Island.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn appeared for Monday's hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court
wearing a black overcoat and slacks, looking haggard and unshaven... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 By Niall Stanage - 11/07/11 05:15 AM ET
An overwhelming majority of likely voters think it’s important to consider
a politician’s private foibles when assessing his or her suitability for
office.
But they also contend that presidential campaigns have become dirtier over
the past generation, perhaps indicating a reluctance to accept allegations
against particular candidates at face value.
The results of this week’s The Hill Poll indicate that 85 percent of voters
regard the way a politician condu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 AS Australia loses more of its best and bravest to the war in Afghanistan,
the RSL says this Remembrance Day is as important to the nation as Armistice
Day was at the end of World War I.
RSL president Jock Statton said Australians should pause to remember the
recent sacrifices of their armed forces and think of those men and women
fighting overseas in today's conficts as the clock strikes 11 on the 11th
day of the 11th month.
"Today there are still servicemen and women serving around the world, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of adults say President Barack Obama does not
deserve a second term but are evenly divided on whether he will win re-
election next year, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights
some of the campaign obstacles he faces.
Although the public would prefer Obama be voted out of office, he fares
relatively well in potential matchups with Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt
Gingrich. Another bit of good news for the Democrat: For the first time
since spring, more ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 CALGARY — Premier Alison Redford dropped the writ Monday on what is
expected to be Alberta’s most contentious election in decades, as oil-rich
Alberta grapples with how to manage its resources in the face of an
increasingly hostile central Canada.
After 41 years of majority rule, the Progressive Conservatives are facing a
well-organized, well-funded scrap against the right-leaning Wildrose Party,
led by former journalist Danielle Smith. A win on April 23 would likely
confirm the PCs as Canada’s ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 It sure sounds like it, though that’s not what they’re calling it. They’
re not actually calling it anything, which makes it all the more suspicious.
CHICAGO, July 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., who
disclosed recently that he has been on medical leave since early June with
an unspecified condition, is grappling with “physical and emotional
ailments” that require in-patient treatment, his office said on Thursday.
In a statement, Jackson’s press secretary Frank Watkin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Christians frightened for America’s future face a conundrum this electoral
season. Biblical precepts must steer our politics; loving God with all our
hearts, souls and minds obviously includes discernment at the polls. “When
you enter the voting booth,” says R.C. Sproul, “don’t leave your
Christianity in the parking lot.”
How should Christians vote their beliefs?
Only God knows either candidate’s heart, but Mitt Romney professes
Mormonism. Culturally, Mormons make for great neighbors and busines... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 President François Hollande attempted to re-launch his struggling
presidency last night by promising to re-build a strong France for a "new
generation" and a "new world".
In a press conference seen as a critical opportunity to set a new tone and a
new direction after a much-criticised first six months in office, Mr
Hollande sought to abandon his image as a bumbling and laid-back "President
Normal" and tried to define himself instead as a hands-on "President
Responsible".
"I've made the choi... 阅读全帖 |
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