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Obama skipped intel briefings prior to attacks
... /president/2012-09-06 9/7/2012-http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-07 9/8/2012 ... -http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-08 9/9/2012-http://www.whitehouse.gov ... /schedule/president/2012-09-09 9/10/2012-http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-10 9/11
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Army translator program an invitation to jihadists?
... that this threat is not going away." At Fort Jackson, 09 Lima recruits are taught English, American customs ... Stakelbeck that the "Fort Jackson Five" were part of a small unit at the base called 09 Lima, a part ... language." Definitive work on Mideast – available only here! "Commanders in the field
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High court to hear English-only case
... repeal of an Alabama law mandating English as the state's official language. In 1990 ... , Alabama voters adopted a constitutional amendment declaring English the official language of their state ... that Alabama's English-language policy discriminated on the basis of national origin. The state
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Speak English
... the English language. I tend to be more accepting than many of my conservative brethren ... that holds the essence of the country together is our language. And like it or not, English ... English-only case. ... Does lack of language skills constitute a protected right?" Protected right
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'On this night we do not learn Torah'
... that befell the Jewish People on the same date. This year the fast began at 7:43 p.m. Saturday in Jerusalem ... and will end on Sunday at 8:09 p.m. Among the calamities that occurred on this day ...
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Machine translator speaks Chinese in your own voice
... (New Scientist) It'll have language teachers the world over ripping up their vocab books: near-real ... -time speech conversion from one language to another has just become a reality. Microsoft Research ... has demonstrated not only how to convert spoken English into Mandarin with just a few seconds' delay
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Lesbians win college's alumni-couple contest
... announced the winners Tuesday on the Alumni Association's Facebook page: Dear Alumni, We sincerely ... who shared their heartwarming stories with us. Congratulations to our winners Megan Edwards 09 ... and Katie MacTurk 09. The "Hawkmate" contest was a way for alumni who met on Hawk Hill to share love stories and photos.
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The Russian military and the new cold war
... to Putin's English-language propaganda mouthpiece "Russia Beyond the Headlines," it's "dishonest ... of the Putin dictatorship in Russia is expected to soar nearly 60% from 2012 to 2015. But according
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End of 2012: The world has never been better
... , as the best-written and most entertaining magazine in the English language. (Exception: apparently ... these blokes havent been reading Forbes but let us not quibble.) Its Why 2012 was the best year ever observes:
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Testicle-biting dogs 'to face hooligans' at Euro 2012
... at Euro 2012. The English-language Krakow Post newspaper asserted in an editorial that local law