"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

University of Pennsylvania professor Arthur Caplan is bioethicist -- an expert in ethical and moral issues of biological medicine and technology.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

A waiter in the play tells a customer, "If you need any Scotch or gin,Sir My number is Eighty-Six."

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Shirley Griffith tells us about this singer and songwriter with a voice that is child-like, yet mysterious and forceful.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

And the Raven,never flitting, still is sitting -- still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

VOA: special.2010.10.31

The go-between sees to it that money is passed - often illegally - from one person to another.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The shoe is small -- a European size thirty-seven, or a women's size seven in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

As we do,we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2011.05.07

If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money,for an object or service.

VOA: special.2011.06.19

In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

He was a big star. Now he is fifty-seven and damaged by too much alcohol, too many cigarettes and not enough inner strength.

VOA: special.2010.02.22