Jackson was grateful for Van Buren's help, and asked him to come to Washington to serve as secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

So Winslow's father found him a job as an assistant in the trade of making and preparing pictures for printed media.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

But that never happened. For one thing, she did not love him as much as he loved her.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

His research has taken him as far as China, where soybeans have been grown for thousands of years.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

She soon met the well-known scientist Louis Leakey and began working for him as an assistant.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

One evening, his mother sends him to his room without dinner as punishment for misbehaving.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He quickly sent for a judge to give him the oath of office as President.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

As officials describe it, they lost him for a time.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

He credits the oral polio vaccine he received as a child for giving him a new lease on life.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Millions will always remember him as the charming and mild-mannered spokesman of his own television commercials for Jimmy Dean Pork Sausages.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000 as an advance payment for killing him.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

An announcer described him as he took the court for his final national championship victory, in 1975,in his final game.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

One of the best known players to have played for him was center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was then known as Lew Alcindor.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

The Washington Post praised him for being "as versatile an artist as Nashville has produced in years,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Indonesia is a place that is personal for him - he lived there as a child.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In 2008, Florida's Republican governor, Charlie Crist,was so popular that some Republicans touted him as a possible vice presidential running mate for presidential nominee John McCain.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The Arab press has called him as a "hero" and several admirers have even offered to betroth their daughters to him, as a reward for his "courage."

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Sam Sedaei says that identity is like an invisible man, and for him as an Iranian American, a coherent identity can be even more difficult to see.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Mr.Abbas has postponed elections indefinitely that were due for January, as some accused him of failing to persuade the Israelis to freeze settlement growth and grant other concessions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Lesley Prasad, a leading operating room officer, shows the picture a Haitian man sketched while being treated in the hospital as a way for him to say thank you.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"Golf needs him,they need him. Economic times as bad as they are, us trying to find sponsors for this, all over the world trying to find sponsors for golf tournaments.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16