Here is a more hopeful song, James Taylor's "October Road" from his album by the same name.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

Here is a recording from the movie. Hepburn's character, Eva,tells about how she has changed her name in preparation for becoming a great actress.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Here is a nineteen eighty-eight recording of a mans memories of his local general store.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

If you think I'm going to say it's a pleasure to be here,forget it.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Here's a question you can debate online: How important is space exploration?

VOA: special.2010.04.28

"We have a gentleman here that needs help and he's not breathing.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Here is your Last Communion, a beggar's Communion of black bread."

VOA: special.2011.02.19

"What protects the lady is when the FBI does their background check, and if this guy's got a criminal record he's not going to be allowed to bring a lady here."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

"You know,I think the goal each year is going to change. This year, I think, just starting and building a foundation that we can build from and create a tradition of women's lacrosse here at Ballou."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

And in the past several years we've begun to see almost an equal interest by families in sending students here for undergraduate education, and I think that's going to continue because America is really a unique country.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

"It's definitely a relief to us who lives in here because of what's happening, when everything is over we will be able to go back to Haiti without worry, with knowing OK, without nothing bad happening, we'll feel like we're safe over there and then come again back to America safely."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

"If you go in and say, 'Here's a freebie,' then people are going to say, 'Sure,give it to me.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But even here in Gonaives, a hundred kilometers north of the epicenter, Guerriere's family feels the effects of the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30