(Sound) Twenty years ago, thousands of students braved riot police in Prague, demanding an end to decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

This bill doesn't take sides. What it says is that it is inappropriate to have a federal rule that says state governments with their own money can't make these decisions or that individual investors can't press their companies to do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"I believe that the resolution they have agreed upon is the first step of what has to be an ongoing reconciliation and compromising of political views that can stabilize civilian democracy and the rule of law, both of which are essential to the efforts that the Pakistanis themselves see as so critical - namely preventing extremism and violence from stalking the Pakistani peoples and the country,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16