We also invited Hillary’s minister at Little Rocks First United Methodist Church, Ed Matthews, a wonderful man who we knew would stick with us if the lunch deteriorated into a war of words.

我们还邀请了希拉里在小石城第一联合卫理公会教堂的牧师艾德.马修斯。 马修斯是个相当不错的人，我们知道，假如午餐会陷入舌战，他会站在我们这一边。

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Here religion demands but little of him; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these?

在这里，教会仅对他们提出一点需求，他们只要自愿奉献一点给牧师作工资以及对上帝的感恩，他能拒绝这些吗?

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Looking instinctively from the open window - for it was summer-time - the minister beheld Hester Prynne and little Pearl passing along the footpath that traversed the enclosure.

当时正是夏天，牧师不自主地从打开的窗子向外面望去，看到海丝特·白兰和小珠儿在穿越围栏的小径上走着。

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Meanwhile,Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, said the Obama administration has done little to improve U.S.-Cuban relations.

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Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.

BBC: India and Pakistan: Breaking the ice?

On March 19th, six days after the schoolgirls were killed, Jordan's prime minister, Abd al-Karim Kabariti, submitted his resignation, which the king accepted with little grace, replacing him with Abd al-Salam Majali, a former prime minister who signed the 1994 treaty with Israel.

ECONOMIST: Jordan

There had in fact been some American unease during the campaign when the Awami League, the party of the outgoing prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, claimed that there was little to distinguish the ideology of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the smaller Islami Oika Jote parties from that of the Taliban of Afghanistan.

ECONOMIST: Big defeat for the ruling party