CNN 2011-01-20

It was just after noon here at the Caribe Hotel where Jean-Claude Duvalier emerged from the third floor hotel room where he has been staying. He came over to the railing at the edge and he waved to the crowd of people, mostly journalists here and camera crews, and flanked by police and S.W.A.T. Team members from the Haitian authorities.When he got down he was placed in a police vehicle and then the caravan¹ of vehicles made their way down the hillside here and off to a place called the parquet², which is the Haitian court.The Preval government had said back in 2007, that if he ever returned, that they would charge him with embezzlement³. But no formal charges had ever been brought against Duvalier in this country, not up to this point.

The people of Tunisia seem to want total change. They don't want any relation to the past regime. The former government party RCD was part of the Ben Ali's whole political regime for the past 23 years and the people of Tunisia want total change. The game is now in the hands of the president. He is to decide whether he dissolves this government and calls for a new one with a new name. These political parties at the unions are under the pressure from the people. They are convinced to some extent that they need to continue with some of the former government party's officials, but on the other hand they are under pressure from the troops.

Comcast is the country's biggest cable company, and what's going to happen here, the FCC announced, is it's going to be acquiring controlling interest -- that's 51 percent -- of NBC Universal from General Electric. And what this deal would do, it would combine Comcast Internet and cable services with NBC's broadcast stations. That includes MSNBC, channels like Bravo, and also an ownership stake in that online video service that we all talk about so much, Hulu.The big worry with this deal is about media consolidation⁴ and stifling⁵ competition, especially with online video.But, you know, reports are that Comcast has agreed to a bunch of conditions with this deal.

Today, though, after 23 years on his current show, and 50 years in the business, Reg made an announcement his fans didn't want to hear. And it's today's Sound Effect.

There is a time that, you know, everything must come to an end for a certain people on campus, especially certain old people.So anyway, folks, I just want you to know that. Plenty of room to go. But this is going to happen at the end of the summer, the fall, whatever it is. We don't know that yet. But just so that you know.

Regis holds the Guinness world record for the most hours on TV. Well over 16,000.

1 caravan   

n.大蓬车；活动房屋

参考例句：

• The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
• Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。

2 parquet   

n.镶木地板

参考例句：

• The parquet floors shone like mirrors.镶木地板亮得象镜子。
• The snail left a trail of slime along the parquet floor.蜗牛在镶木地板上留下一道黏液。

3 embezzlement   

n.盗用，贪污

参考例句：

• He was accused of graft and embezzlement and was chained and thrown into prison.他因被指控贪污盗窃而锒铛入狱。
• The judge sent him to prison for embezzlement of funds.法官因他盗用公款将其送入监牢。

4 consolidation   

n.合并,巩固

参考例句：

• The denser population necessitates closer consolidation both for internal and external action. 住得日益稠密的居民，对内和对外都不得不更紧密地团结起来。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• The state ensures the consolidation and growth of the state economy. 国家保障国营经济的巩固和发展。 来自汉英非文学 - 中国宪法

5 stifling   

a.令人窒息的

参考例句：

• The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热，光景是要下雨。
• We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。