今天我们要学的词是confront。Confront, 对峙。 Both candidates are well qualified. We're confronted with a difficult choice, 两位候选人都很合格，我们很难做选择。 Jackie spread rumors behind my back. I've decided to confro...
Ivory Coast Confronts Issues of Immigrant Identity The new government of Ivory Coast comes to power in a country divided by years of often-violent debate about what it means to be Ivorian. Founding father Felix Houphouet-Boigny offered work to thousa...
Voters in Guinea-Bissau go to the polls Sunday to choose a new president. Economic growth and security dominate politics in one of the world's poorest countries. Gabu's schools are rundown In the eastern city, Gabu, an old man pushes a wheelbarrow o...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 19 December 2007 The Nepalese parliament has ordered the properties of its disgraced royal family nationalized. But as Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the government is making little headway in finding the fabulou...
By Rebecca Ward Heilingendamm, Germany 08 June 2007 While leaders from the eight industrialized nations meet behind closed doors -- journalists wait for a headline or a photo-op to send home to their editors. But at a media event of this scale -- wi...
By Noel King Khartoum 18 April 2007 Sudan's traditional society paired with a strict Islamic government means that HIV and AIDS are not often discussed in the public arena. Now, in an effort to stem the spread of the disease, the government is partne...
By David Gollust State Department 15 February 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told senators Wednesday the United States will actively confront what she said are the aggressive policies of the...
