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 The Obama Administration is rejecting reports that have quietly cut off aid to Egypt where nearly a thousand people have been killed in political unrest. But this afternoon the issue is a subject of a senior-level meeting. After the White House said it was reviewing its assistants. To the U.S. it's / an important partner in the Middle East. Meanwhile the administration's condemning¹ Egypt's attention of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohammed Badie.   

The State Department employees who had been put on administrative³ leave following the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Lybia last year are back at work today. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports some members of Congress are furious and are now asking where is your accountability? According to his aid, Secretary of State John Kerry has been hands on and focused on learning from the lessons from the Benghazi attack. But officials say he agreed with the Accountability Review Board findings that no employee breach⁴ their duty. So those four employees who had been placed on administrative leave are back to work, though in different jobs. The chairman of the House Oversight⁵ and Government Reform Committee says the Obama Administration is not keeping its promises of accountability. Instead California Republican Darrell Issa accuses the State Department of offering a (quote) "charade⁶" that ends in the game of musical chairs. No one, he says, missed a single day on the payroll⁷. Michele Kelemen NPR News, Washington.   

In an unprecedented⁸ move, a Pakistani court is indicting¹⁰ former president Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination¹¹ in 2007. His lawyer Afsha Adil says there is no proof Musharraf was involved.   

"The important thing is this: you will have to prove the allegations, with evidence, and still there is no evidence on record."  

The charges include murder and conspiracy¹² to commit murder.   

The Guardian¹³ newspaper in Britain says its London office no longer holds hard drives containing classified material leaked by former analyst¹⁴ Edward Snowden. It destroyed those but editor Alan Rusbridger says copies exist elsewhere.   

Military prosecutors¹⁵ have rested their case against Major Nidal Hasan, the alleged¹⁶ gunman in the 2009 rampage at Fort Hood², Texas.Acting¹⁷ in his own defense¹⁸, Hasan could begin tomorrow.   

Readers of Elmore Leonard's crime stories are remembering the man they called the the master of his genre¹⁹. He died this morning from complications of a stroke he suffered a few weeks ago. A number of Leonard's work such as "Get Shorty" were on screen hits.  

"Look at me, Harry²⁰. Where is my money? Where is my money?!"  

In a 1998 interview, Leonard said he tried to make his villains²¹ real.   

"I think of the bad guys as real people. You know, they have a certain humanity about them."   

Leonard passed away at his home in a suburb of Detroit. He was 87 years old.   

Before the closing bell Dow was down 8 points at 1503 and the NASDAQ was up 25. You're listening to NPR News.   

College students are relying more on government aid today than ever before. NPR's Claudio Sanchez has details. The new figures from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that from 2007 to 2011, the percentage of undergraduate students who depend on federal loans and grants jumped from 47 percent to 57 percent. And it's not just the neediest students ?students in all socioeconomic groups are increasingly dependent on government aid. The number of full-time²² students from families earning $60,000 to $80,000, for example, shot up from 2% to 18%. Students who rely on government aid receive about $8,200 on average. But this is climbing, too, because college tuition and fees at public institutions are going up." Claudio Sanchez NPR News.   

Republican U.S. senator Ted⁹ Cruz is renouncing²³ his Canadian citizenship²⁴. His birth certificate as first published by the Dallas Morning News shows the key party favor was born in Canada to an American mother. He has long maintained he was a U.S. citizen, but he says now it's time to fully²⁵ reflect that. Cruz's name has been floated as the potential presidential candidate in 2016.   

Al-Jazeera America, now beaming into nearly 48 million households in the United States. The Qatar-based news organization has been looking for firm foothold on American television and chance after buying Al Gore's former Current TV.   

A federal judge has approved Citigroup's $730 million settlement was bondholders'. It resolves claims that the bank hid its exposure to billions of dollars of toxic²⁶ mortgage assets since the country was on the cusp of a financial meltdown. 

1 condemning   

v.（通常因道义上的原因而）谴责( condemn的现在分词 )；宣判；宣布…不能使用；迫使…陷于不幸的境地

参考例句：

• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
• I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

3 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

4 breach   

n.违反，不履行；破裂；vt.冲破，攻破

参考例句：

• We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
• He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。

5 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

6 charade   

n.用动作等表演文字意义的字谜游戏

参考例句：

• You must not refine too much upon this charade.你切不可过分推敲这个字谜。
• His poems,despite their dignity and felicity,have an air of charade.他的诗篇虽然庄严巧妙，却有猜迷之嫌。

7 payroll   

n.工资表，在职人员名单，工薪总额

参考例句：

• His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
• I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。

8 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

9 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

10 indicting   

控告，起诉( indict的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• But Moreno-Ocampo stressed he was not indicting President Bashir. 但是奥坎波强调，他并不是在起诉巴希尔总统。
• He says that indicting the journalists is just another move at Washington. 尹德民说，起诉这两名记者就是针对华盛顿的另一个行动。

11 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

12 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

13 guardian   

n.监护人；守卫者，保护者

参考例句：

• The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
• The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。

14 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

15 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

16 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

17 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

18 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

19 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

20 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

21 villains   

n.恶棍( villain的名词复数 )；罪犯；（小说、戏剧等中的）反面人物；淘气鬼

参考例句：

• The impression of villains was inescapable. 留下恶棍的印象是不可避免的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Some villains robbed the widow of the savings. 有几个歹徒将寡妇的积蓄劫走了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

22 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

23 renouncing   

v.声明放弃( renounce的现在分词 )；宣布放弃；宣布与…决裂；宣布摒弃

参考例句：

• He enraged the government by renouncing the agreement. 他否认那项协议，从而激怒了政府。 来自辞典例句
• What do you get for renouncing Taiwan and embracing Beijing instead? 抛弃台湾，并转而拥抱北京之后，你会得到什么？ 来自互联网

24 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

25 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

26 toxic   

adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的

参考例句：

• The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
• There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。