Tell us if you have a favorite American blues or folk singer young or old -- and what makes that person's music special to you.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

"Some Neo-Nazi groups, they sent us death threats by e-mail or by phone,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

"Of course,you have the Palestinian-Israeli situation, plus the Saudi-Yemen problem, plus all kinds of bilateral issues, wars or bilateral conflicts, let us say,which could really lead into war in the future."

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"We are there to protect the streets of Britain, we are there because al-Qaida poses a threat to us as well as it does to other countries and we are there because if al-Qaida took control again or had an influence in Afghanistan, under a Taliban government, then the people of this government would not be safe,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.14