NPR 2009-12-11

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. President Obama accepted his Nobel Prize today, acknowledging the irony of a war president accepting a prize for peace. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. The president gave the kind of speech that no one on t

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VOA标准英语2008年-Pirate Ransom Helped Somalia Islamist Militants

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英语情景对话：Absentee Ballot(2)

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英语情景对话：Absentee Ballot(1)

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经典英文歌曲：打榜热歌 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco

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VOA标准英语2008年-Somali Islamist Denies Involvement in Piracy

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VOA标准英语2010-'Warehoused' Refugee Builds New Life in U

Laurel Bowman | Washington 08 April 2010 The United States resettles the largest number of refugees worldwide, allowing roughly 70,000 to enter the U.S. each year. Currently, large numbers of Bhutanese refugees, who lived for decades in camps in Nepa

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