She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Sullivan says when she was writing and recording songs for her album she knew she had to develop her own style.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

We asked Ms.Nietert what advice she had for someone who might want to get involved in helping others through microfinance.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

She has recorded more than thirty albums since she had her first number one song on the country music charts.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

She had been addressing Christmas cards, and the only thing that came to her mind was 'Merry' as in Merry Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Every time a woman lost a round of the fighting, she had to take a piece of clothing off.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

But you always remember that she had this incredible freedom that most children don't have and she was so smart."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But she had never met a musician she felt fully shared her musical point of view until she met Matt Ward.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

She also became known for her outspoken opinions, her clothing and the great pride she had in herself and her race.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains. She started clenching her jaw and grinding her teeth at night.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

She told me her mother was killed in the games because she had hidden the egg that produced her.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Bourke-White was no longer satisfied just to show the products of industry in her pictures, as she had in the past.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

She had a plan that would get the ten dollars for her grandmother and make the young man happy.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Then everything she had was destroyed again -- this time, in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.16