But half-a-world away, ordinary Afghans have their own advice for the U.S.president.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

He believed if he could only enter this kind of a hotel, he would be able to leave school, his teachers,and his ordinary, gray life behind him.forever.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

It is a relationship that maybe was strategic in the past, but its probably downgraded to a more ordinary bilateral relationship."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

(SPEAKING) Speaking in Tagalog, Mr.Aquino promised to fight corruption and he pledged to bring a new era of good governance, reforms and a bureaucracy that will be sensitive to the plight of ordinary people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30