The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Part Two We continue the story of The Open Boat by Stephen Crane. As we told you last week, the story is based on true events. In eighteen ninety-six, Crane was traveling to Cuba as a news reporter. On his way there, h

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PARIS, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Jeffrey Sachs, special advisor for UN Secretary General(秘书长), envisioned Thursday a three-pillar monetary system in place of U.S. dollar dominance in post-crisis world at an economic forum in Paris. We can't go to a gl

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A crane and a crow made a league on oath,providing that the crane should protect the crow against other birds,and that the crow should foretell the future,so that the crane could be on her guard.After this,they flew as usual into the fields

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A Mother was reading a Bible story to her young daughter. She read The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee(逃跑)out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt. Her daughter asked What happened to the

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A wolf was eating his supper one day when a bone stuck in his throat.Choking and coughing,he howled about the countryside asking every animal he met to help him.There's a good reward for anyone who can save me,he spluttered.A crane heard ab

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A peacock,spreading its gorgeous plumage,mocked a cranethat passed by,ridiculing the ashen hue of its feathers,I am robed,like a king,in gold and purple,looking as splendid as the rainbow;while you have not a bit of colour on your win

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