i*****y
发帖数: 3449 | 1 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100077909/meet-th
Just a quickie today, but if you were wondering why a Jasmine-style
revolution hadn’t broken out in China, I wanted to introduce you to Mr Gao,
a farmer-cum-migrant worker who lives in a village in Shanxi province in
northern China.
I bumped into Mr Gao while I was out reporting recently on the drought
across the North China Plain and he struck me as a kind of perfect advert
for the achievements of China’s ruling party and the reaso... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 2 也是以前几个id推荐的New Yorker的一个短篇小说，我当时打印了，到现在还没看……
发信人: megguan (🐳), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 18:29:04 2013, 美东)
吃！
今年最喜欢的书是george saunders的小说集tenth of december (最喜欢的是书里最后
一篇的同名小说；也在new yorker上登过)；今年最喜欢的电影是american hustle,
gravity还有一代宗师；最喜欢的歌是网络大俗歌what does the fox say?!
发信人: xiaobug (none), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 19:33:00 2013, 美东)
同喜欢这本书。那天和 aixiaoke 讨论了一下。他的小说我看得很压抑，想起了白先勇
的 芝加哥之死
原文链接（带图）：
http://www.newyorker.com/fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 3 发信人: megguan (🐳), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 18:29:04 2013, 美东)
吃！
今年最喜欢的书是george saunders的小说集tenth of december (最喜欢的是书里最后
一篇的同名小说；也在new yorker上登过)；今年最喜欢的电影是american hustle,
gravity还有一代宗师；最喜欢的歌是网络大俗歌what does the fox say?!
发信人: xiaobug (none), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 19:33:00 2013, 美东)
同喜欢这本书。那天和 aixiaoke 讨论了一下。他的小说我看得很压抑，想起了白先勇
的 芝加哥之死
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/10/31/111031fi_f
Tenth of December
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发帖数: 21627 | 4 Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-
Programmer?
A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was
arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him
, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But
Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old
father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2088 | 5 BEIJING—The U.K. has asked the Chinese government to launch an
investigation into the death of a British businessman who claimed to have
close links to the family of Bo Xilai, the Communist Party leader whose
downfall has thrown Chinese politics into turmoil.
Players in China's Leadership Purge
View Slideshow
Associated Press
In this Oct. 21, 2008, photo, then-Chongqing city police chief Wang Lijun
held a press conference. Wang triggered the political drama by seeking
refuge from Mr. Bo in a U.S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 772 | 6 “ it sounds like you admitted that you hadn't paid federal taxes and that,
that was smart. Is that what you meant to say?”
hadn't paid federal taxes 跟hadn't paid federal taxes on one project是两回事
，床铺经营过那么多项目
就算hadn't paid federal taxes on one project, 这有可能是合法的，也有可能是非
法的。如果是非法的，找irs去；如果是合法的，别跟土工一样拿道德大棒。
床铺说that makes me smart是说在一个casino项目上找到了合法的办法paid 0
federal tax, 作为一个商人，这确实smart。假如我是一个商人，我也希望我能想出合
法的方式不交。这没毛病。
而主持人问的是“你是不是从来就不交federal tax”，牛啊，希拉里团队、共和党大
佬眼中钉肉中刺的床铺从来不叫federal tax但他们一点证据都搞不到？当irs... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 前聯邦調查局長柯米(James Comey)6月8日（周四）將就他與川普(Donald Trump)總統
的互動，赴國會參議院情報委員會作證，情報委員會在7日下午提前公布了柯米的書面
證詞；這也是柯米被川普開除以來，首度公開露面的場合。
這項受到各界矚目的世紀聽證會，除了事關川普在「通俄門」的角色外，更重要的是川
普如何看待「總統」這項職務。川普是否循私不公？是否涉嫌妨礙司法？或是否從最根
本的行為舉止上，讓外界很容易判斷他是否適任。
世界日報特別以中英全文對照的方式，為讀者即時翻譯柯米書面證詞的全文，也為柯米
接下來的聽證詢答，揭開序幕：
Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee.Thank you for
inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to
describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on
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发帖数: 819 | 8 Gun Time: 26:00:45
Chip Time: 25:56:09
Checkpoint Name | Time of Day | Interval Time | Total Time
1 May Queen Outbound | 2011-08-20 | 06:38:22.652 | 02:38:22.982 | 02:38:22.
982
2 Fish Hatchery Outbound | 2011-08-20 | 08:40:43.126 | 02:02:20.474 | 04:40:
43.456
3 Half Pipe Outbound | 2011-08-20 | 10:14:52.813 | 01:34:09.687 | 06:14:53.
143
4 Twin Lakes Outbound | 2011-08-20 | 12:28:43.161 | 02:13:50.348 | 08:28:43.
491
5 Winfield | 2011-08-20 | 16:50:48.940 | 04:22:05.779 | 12:50:49.270
6 Twin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 9 是一个得了晚期肺癌的住院医师Paul Kalanithi在生命的最后两年写的手记。在这最后
的两年里，他继续完成医疗培训，人生第一次当上爸爸，"and wrote beautifully
about his experience facing mortality as a doctor and a patient." 去年3月去
世，年仅38岁。今年1月12日，他的手记由Random House出版，书名为《When Breath
Becomes Air》。星期一的New Yorker登载了其中一个片段：
My Last Day as a Surgeon
I hopped out of the CT scanner, seven months since I had returned to surgery
. This would be my last scan before finishing residency, before becoming a
father, before my future became real.
“Wanna take a look, Doc?” the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 10
JFK被刺时候戴着背支架，医生说如果没戴支架挨了第一枪像正常人一样上身向前倒下
，第二枪应该打不到JFK不会死。
JFK Assassination: If The President Hadn't Been Wearing A Back Brace, He May
Have Survived, Doctor Says
As the nation was just beginning to reel from shock, Kennedy was rushed to
Parkland Hospital, where Dr. Kenneth Salyer, a 27-year-old resident at the
time, was on call for head trauma. Dr. Salyer, who said that the president
was still barely breathing when he arrived at the hospital, was surprised to
find that JFK was wearing a stiff ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12756 | 11 从尼玛一个生活富足的小业主，变成这个吞枪自杀的悲惨结局
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Norman+Walter+Raddatz+faced+fina
Originally published June 9, 2015
EDMONTON - Norman Walter Raddatz was a “deadbeat,” his neighbour says, a
man who piled dog feces on his fence to provoke a reaction.
Raddatz, 42, fired over 50 bullets from inside his southwest Edmonton home
on Monday night, police say, killing Const. Daniel Woodall and wounding Sgt.
Jason Harley. After the shooting, flames engulfed the Ormsby neighbourhood
home, burning ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 Policeman on Brown: 'He Grabbed My Gun, He Twisted It, Pointed at Me'
November 25, 2014 - 12:26 PM
By Brittany M. Hughes
(CNSNews.com) – One day after fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed
black teenager, Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson, who is white,
gave his account of the incident to two detectives from the St. Louis County
Police Department, explaining in detail how Brown attacked him through the
police car’s open window, wrestled for the officer’s gun, and then pointed
it... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 13 “He made a commitment to run for president. He had made a commitment to
contest this convention. He hadn’t conceded. He hadn’t suspended. He hadn
’t released us. And he told us that he would be grateful for our vote”
said Jim Boydston, a delegate from California. “And then he just handed it
off.” |
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a*o
发帖数: 25262 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 NewYork 讨论区 】
发信人: auo (aeiou), 信区: NewYork
标 题: In a relationship, married or not… You should read this. (zz)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 21 11:18:49 2011, 美东)
“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and
said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I
observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what
I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t
see... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25262 | 15 “When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and
said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I
observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what
I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t
seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks
and shouted at me, you are not... 阅读全帖 |
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r****p
发帖数: 1949 | 16 The Birth of the Flippin’ Stik – Part One
This is part one of a two-part series on the advent of the Flippin’ Stik. I
had the pleasure of discussing the subject with Dee Thomas, the father of
flipping, and Dave Myers, the brains behind the design of the blank. In this
installment, Thomas talks about his first tournaments, how he felt he
couldn’t compete and the eventual protests from fellow competitors
surrounding the long rod.
Dee Thomas’ early tournament endeavors were met with mixed results a... 阅读全帖 |
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c****e
发帖数: 1984 | 17 http://www.johnziegler.com/editorials_details.asp?editorial=220
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Editorial by John Ziegler
How the Media May Have Framed Joe Paterno
7/19/2012
Regardless of what the final facts eventually say about what Joe Paterno
knew and when he knew it about Jerry Sandusky’s criminal behavior (contrary
to what the media has told you, they aren’t in yet), the media coverage of
him has been as unfair as any I have ever seen. In some ways, the media
coverage of Joe Paterno has combined s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 50662 | 18 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-17/japan-nuclear-disas
黑幕很多，事情大条了
By Jason Clenfield
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear
plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and
underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry.
The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less
than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant,
also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and ... 阅读全帖 |
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C******s
发帖数: 270 | 19 来自主题: ClassicalMusic版 - 恰空 给你篇文看
On the Marionette Theatre
by Heinrich von Kleist
Translated by Idris Parry
One evening in the winter of 1801 I met an old friend in a public park. He
had recently been appointed principal dancer at the local theatre and was
enjoying immense popularity with the audiences. I told him I had been
surprised to see him more than once at the marionette theatre which had been
put up in the market-place to entertain the public with dramatic burlesques
interspersed with song and dance. He assured me... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21566 | 20 The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared
, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.:
From [email protected]
/* */ Fri Nov 29 18:00:49 2002
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:03:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Trey Harris <[email protected]
/* */>
To: [email protected]
/* */
Subject: The case of the 500-mile email (was RE: [SAGE] Favorite impossible
task?)
Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible... I almost regret posting the
story to a wide audienc... 阅读全帖 |
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v*****s
发帖数: 20290 | 21 The Paper Menagerie
by Ken Liu
One of my earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed
no matter what Mom and Dad tried.
Dad gave up and left the bedroom, but Mom took me into the kitchen and sat
me down at the breakfast table.
“Kan, kan,” she said, as she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top
of the fridge. For years, Mom carefully sliced open the wrappings around
Christmas gifts and saved them on top of the fridge in a thick stack. She
set the paper down, plain side ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 22 LETTERS FROM ZEDELGHEM
CHATEAU ZEDELGHEM,
NEERBEKE,
WEST VLAANDEREN
29TH-VI-1993
Sixsmith,
Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with
shelves of
porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall
and smash to bits.
Exactly what happened, but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang
out, half-cello,
half-celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase
affair off its
pedestal—E-flat, whole string section, g... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19049 | 23 THE GHASTLY ORDEAL OF TIMOTHY CAVENDISH
One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a
Greenwich
avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those
Regency residences
number among London’s costliest properties, but should you ever inherit one
, dear Reader, sell
it, don’t live in it. Houses like these secrete some dark sorcery that
transforms their owners into
fruitcakes. One such victim, an ex-chief of Rhodesian police, had, on the
evening in qu... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 24 One of my earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed
no matter what Mom and Dad tried.
Dad gave up and left the bedroom, but Mom took me into the kitchen and sat
me down at the breakfast table.
“Kan, kan,” she said, as she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top
of the fridge. For years, Mom carefully sliced open the wrappings around
Christmas gifts and saved them on top of the fridge in a thick stack.
She set the paper down, plain side facing up, and began to fold it... 阅读全帖 |
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m***y
发帖数: 14763 | 25 en, the bad reputation hadn't phased out even in Aman's generation, if Han
Dynasty hadn't collapsed "suddenly". |
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发帖数: 2038 | 26 Thomas proposed to Nikki on a rented sailboat circled by dolphins in
Galveston Bay. They married on August 23, 2008, and honeymooned in Galveston
the week before a hurricane ravaged the Texas town. Two months later, Nikki
went to Trinidad, Colo., for reassignment surgery. 'The next morning I had
all of this gauze and packing,' Nikki says, 'but I was like, Wow! I was able
to look into the mirror naked. This is how I should have been born.' She is
glad she waited until she was 33 to have the proce... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11319 | 27 在1994年之前，经过作者调研，全美没有发生过知名的校园大屠杀案件（一次死亡3人
以上）
1994年Gun Free Schools Act 通过，同时联邦政府迫使各州也通过了类似法律之后，
在全国范围内，任何公立中小学内携枪都属于federal felony, 同时校园屠杀案却如雨
后春笋一
般不断增加。从94年至今至今已发生14起，每两年一起。
不过就是在这个法案通过后，仍然有红州教职员工违法带枪到学校，制止屠杀的案例。
在此我要向这些教职员工致敬。
这些案例包括
1. In Pearl, Mississippi in 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed and
bludgeoned to death his mother at home, then killed two students and
injured seven at his high school. As he was on his way to another school
building , he was stopped by Assistant Principal J... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 28 http://www.ocregister.com/articles/winter-599823-jewish-student
UC students protest shorter break due to Rosh Hashana
Seven UC campuses will have a two weeks off instead of three.
BY SCOTT MARTINDALE AND MARK MUCKENFUSS / STAFF WRITERS
Published: Jan. 31, 2014 Updated: Feb. 3, 2014 9:27 a.m.
UC students protest shorter break due to Rosh Hashana
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发帖数: 10330 | 29 Missing Flight Left Data Trail
Jetliner 'Pinged' Satellites With Location, Altitude for Hours After
Disappearance
Communication satellites received intermittent data "pings" from a missing
Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -4.08% jet, giving the plane's location, speed
and altitude for at least five hours after it disappeared from civilian
radar screens, people briefed on the investigation said Thursday.
The final satellite ping was sent from over water, at what one of these
people called a "normal" cr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 30 “The Most Handsome Chinese Man I’ve Ever Seen”
Posted by Jiayang Fan
Fei-Xiang.jpg
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/01/fei-xiang
In 1987, a young man walked onto a vast, lantern-festooned stage and, in
less than three minutes, won the hearts of a billion. The stage was the
Spring Festival Gala, a nationally broadcast variety show that makes the
Radio City Christmas Spectacular look homespun. But Fei Xiang, who soon
became the Gala’s main attraction, was no mere Rockette. Fei st... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 31 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 大统领说如果不搞政治，他可能去硅谷
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jun 23 16:28:07 2016, 美东)
If Barack Obama had not become president, he says he might be working in
Silicon Valley or the venture capital industry.
During an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Obama said if he hadn't
gone into politics he would probably be starting a business, because the
skills appear to translate well.
If Barack Obama had not become president, he says he might be workin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 32 12月 谈谈间谍问题
我一直感觉Reuters 有日本的间谍，他们会通过报道来传递针对华人屠杀的计划，和发
布不利于华人的报道，制造舆论。最重要他们后边的势力和犯罪集团有关。有必要好好
调查这个组织。
How top U.S. colleges hooked up with controversial Chinese companies
By Steve Stecklow and Alexandra Harney
Filed Dec. 2, 2016, noon GMT
New Oriental, China’s biggest private educator, has been accused of
academic fraud. Thanks to two enterprising Americans, it has also gained
access to leading U.S. college admissions officers.
SHANGHAI/SHELTER ISLAND, New York - Thomas Benson once ran a small... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 794 | 33 HNA's NYC Nonprofit Owner Told by State to Register as Charity
New York State’s top cop is joining an effort to solve a riddle -- who
or what controls HNA Group Co., the Chinese conglomerate that’s been
collecting stakes in banks, hotels and is poised to buy Anthony Scaramucci’
s hedge fund firm.
Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, sent a letter Thursday
asking for more information about a charity that owns part of HNA. This
week, the conglomerate disclosed that Manhattan-based Hai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10426 | 34 彭博社：HNA's NYC Charity Owner Told by A.G. to Register With State。
New York State’s top cop is joining an effort to solve a riddle -- who or
what controls HNA Group Co., the Chinese conglomerate that’s been
collecting stakes in banks, hotels and is poised to buy Anthony Scaramucci’
s hedge fund firm.
Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, sent a letter Thursday
asking for more information about a charity that owns part of HNA. This week
, the conglomerate disclosed that Manhattan-based ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 35 Computers had doubled in power every 18 months for the last 40 years. Why
hadn’t programming changed?
John Resig had been noticing the same thing among his students. Resig is a
celebrated programmer of JavaScript—software he wrote powers over half of
all websites—and a tech lead at the online-education site Khan Academy. In
early 2012, he had been struggling with the site’s computer-science
curriculum. Why was it so hard to learn to program? The essential problem
seemed to be that code was so ab... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 36 我可以看得到，copy paste将就看下吧
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CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
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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: 2469 | 37 The Trump administration is dialing up efforts to 'build that wall,' records
show
By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates
Updated 12:56 PM ET, Fri November 22, 2019
Private land can be seized to build wall
Pause
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Current Time0:03
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Duration Time6:05
FullscreenNow PlayingPrivate land could be...
Crucial 2020 battleground weighs in on impeachment
Jason Brown
DOJ says Chicago gang leader radicalized by ISIS
Sam Hunt arrested for DUI in Nashville
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 01: Chairman of Burton Snowb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14281 | 38 At a later date which hadn’t been determined ，这就是绕开法律问题的权宜之计
而已，实际上就是遥遥无期了，很可能到时候到时候再来个waive 的法案，大概率不可
能收了。
hadn
no
★ 发自iPhone App: ChinaWeb 1.1.5 |
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发帖数: 1 | 39 再给老将讲解一下：
Companies would still be liable for the tariffs at a later date, which hadn
’t been determined, another official said. Officials said there would be no
formal changes to tariff policy.
如果是欠税(无论是否要补交）：
Companies are still liable for the tariffs...
现在官员说的是Companies would still be liable for the tariffs at a later
date, which hadn’t been determined
尼玛，用了would，还有at a later date, 连对以后是否还要继续执行收关税，都不确
定了
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发帖数: 2570 | 40 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to suspend collection of
import tariffs for three months to give U.S. companies financial relief
amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to administration officials.
“Customs duties will be suspended for three months,” a senior
administration official said Friday.
Companies would still be liable for the tariffs at a later date, which hadn
’t been determined, another official said. Officials said there would be no
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/28/cronkiting-north-korea-wont-work-this-time-hes-dead-and-were-not-buying-it/
Cronkiting North Korea Won’t Work This Time; He’s dead, and we’re not
buying it
Posted By Resa Kirkland On November 28, 2010 @ 11:00 am In Agendas of the
Left,Anti-War Movement,Asia,Big Government,Big Posts,Corruption,Defining the
Left,Feature,Hot Posts,Media: Leftwing Bias,Military & Defense Issues,
Political Correctness,Political News,Politics,Tactics of the Left,Terrorism
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 巴马带来的改变：“只有在今天的华盛顿，才有总统绕过自己宣称的不许雇用游说人的
禁令，雇用游说公司的老板”
By Dana Milbank, Published: March 6
Three years into his presidency, Barack Obama has finally overcome his pesky
, puritanical aversion to K Street.
As a candidate, Obama pledged that lobbyists “will not run my White House.
” But on Monday, the president brought in one of this town’s most
prominent lobbyists to run his White House — or at least a nice piece of it.
Ricchetti achieved this feat — getting around the ban on lobbyists serving
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发帖数: 29576 | 43 by Andrew Ferguson, campaign veteran
The news readers from NPR were mum-mum-mumbling in the background the other
morning as I was putt-putt-puttering around the house when . .&
#8201;. all of a sudden . . . running
counter to every fiber of my being . . . pulling
against my every natural inclination . . . I began
to pay attention! President Obama, one of the news readers said, was giving
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 This Is What Government-Run Health Care Looks Like
Posted 01/13/2014 06:24 PM ET
Socialized Medicine: More than two-thirds of the public don't think the
government can be trusted to run the nation's health care system
successfully. ObamaCare is proving these skeptics right.
The public might not agree on much these days, but one thing it
overwhelmingly believes is that government is ill-equipped to manage one-
sixth of the economy — 67% said so in the January IBD/TIPP poll.
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Marc Faber: I’d Vote for Trump because “Clinton will Destroy the Whole
World”; Complete Interview Transcript
Saturday
Mar 2016
It’s All Relative
In a Bloomberg TV interview, the outspoken Marc Faber says “Given the
alternatives, I would vote for Mr. Trump, because he may only destroy the U.
S. economy, but Hillary Clinton will destroy the whole world.”
Note: I am having trouble inserting this video. But a complete transcript
follows.
Here’s a link to the key portion of the interview.
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发帖数: 61690 | 46 If Barack Obama had not become president, he says he might be working in
Silicon Valley or the venture capital industry.
During an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Obama said if he hadn't
gone into politics he would probably be starting a business, because the
skills appear to translate well.
If Barack Obama had not become president, he says he might be working in
Silicon Valley or the venture capital industry.
During an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Obama said if he hadn't
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