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  • 华人风采——葛芮：致力保护野生动物16年

    【葛芮1984年毕业于北京广播学院，之后加入中央电视台国际频道。为了更好的实现自己的新闻理想，她就读于美国犹他大学大众媒介系继续深造获得硕士学位。之后在美国犹他州电视台，担任新闻节目的编导。1996年受国际爱护动物基金会（简称IFAW）邀请参加报道广东省林业厅和IFAW共同解救8头遭受残酷的活体取胆的亚洲黑熊的行动。这一次报道，改变了葛芮的命运。之后她放弃了在电视台清闲而酬劳优厚的工作和在美国安逸的家庭生活，回归祖国担任国际爱护动物基金会中国代表，并在北京建立了国际爱护动物基金会的中国办公室。】
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  • Prelude to War — W.H. Report Detailing Syrian’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013

    The White House
    August 30, 2013

    U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013

    The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. We further assess that the regime used a nerve agent in the attack. These all-source assessments are based on human, signals, and geospatial intelligence as well as a significant body of open source reporting. Our classified assessments have been shared with the U.S. Congress and key international partners. To protect sources and methods, we cannot publicly release all available intelligence – but what follows is an unclassified summary of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s analysis of what took place.
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  • 罗德岛大学孔院成功举办第二届中文教师培训班

    【文：罗德岛大学孔子学院吴悦、图：张迟】随着“汉语热”在美国的持续升温，越来越多的学校开设了中文课程，对中文教师的需求量也日益增加，这使得中文教师成为就业的新热点。然而目前从业的中文教师大多不是对外汉语专业出身，在知识结构和理念方法上都存在较大的欠缺，他们非常希望通过系统而专业的培训来提高自身的业务素质，以适应教学和科研的需要。为了满足广大汉语教学者的需求，8月21日到8月25日，由孔子学院总部、国家汉办主办，罗德岛大学孔子学院承办了第二届教师培训班，为他们进行了为期5天的集中培训，取得了良好的反响。
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    培训班学员、孔子学院工作人员合影。 （photos by Chi Zhang）
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  • Confucius Institute of URI Hosts Workshop for CSL Teachers

    By Claire Golds, student assistant at Confucius Institute of URI

    Kingston, R.I., August 28, 2013, — From August 21 to 25, the Confucius Institute of the University of Rhode Island held a teacher training workshop, where 55 teachers of Chinese as a Second Language(CSL) came from all over New England and some other states, living together, eating together, attending lectures, and sharing their stories and experiences with each other. The workshop is sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters, and hosted by the Confucius Institute at University of Rhode Island.
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    Robin Harvey demos the art of storying-telling in teaching Chinese. (photos by Chi Zhang)
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  • 12位波士顿市长候选人出席“我的主街”论坛

    【侨报周末特约记者李强波士顿图文报道】8月19日晚，所有12位候选人出席了“我的主街”波士顿市长候选人论坛。本次论坛在波士顿多切斯特区有96年历史的史传德（Strand）剧院举行，12位候选人在台上坐成一排，剧院里满座的数百名观众，场面颇为壮观。波士顿20年来的第一位新市长将从这12位候选人中脱颖而出。
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  • Chinese American Charles Xue Arrested in Beijing in Prostitution Sting

    (from cntv.cn)

    Beijing police have arrested Chinese-American businessman and online opinion leader Charles Xue, known online as Xue Manzi. Xue is accused of using the services of prostitutes.

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  • 波士顿警局局长戴维斯获中国学生签名感谢信

    【波士顿华人双语网李强、张露元8月27日报道】今天上午，来自中国包头市内蒙古科技大学（IMUST）的石秀丽、李利彼（Lee Libbey）夫妇，在波士顿警察总局向局长爱德华·戴维斯(Ed Davis)呈上有数百名学生们签名的感谢信。戴维斯代表所有参与处理波士顿马拉松爆炸案及其后续事宜的执法人员接受了这封感谢信。

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  • The March on Washington Is Remembered 50 Years Later

    3:07 P.M. EDT, August 28, 2013

    THE PRESIDENT: To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much; to President Clinton; President Carter; Vice President Biden and Jill; fellow Americans.

    Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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  • 2013大波士顿学区排名 西北郊城镇前25名过半

    【波士顿双语网综合报道】据《波士顿》杂志刚刚公布的2013年大波士顿地区最佳学校排名，在前25名城镇中，波士顿西北郊区的城镇超过五成，包括华人人口众多的牛顿、布鲁克兰、莱克星顿、艾克顿等城镇，其中莱克星顿镇高居第三名。
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  • Thank-you Letter from Chinese Students Presented to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, August 27, 2013 — Ms. Xiuli Shi and Mr. Lee Libbey from Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology (IMUST) in Baotou city, China presented Commissioner Ed Davis with a Thank-you letter signed by hundreds of students at Boston Police headquarters this morning. Commissioner Davis accepted the Thank-you letter on behalf of all law enforcement personnel who were involved in the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath.

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