These two dear friends of mine had repeatedly asked me to pursue the team leader to praise them to the director by telling him how they had been capable with superb talent.

那二位仁兄在饭前无数遍地要求我在与司长会见时一定要让我们的队长向司长夸奖他们如何能干，才能卓越。

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"Even with the new normal of being informal, the proper way to start an e-mail is with 'Dear, '" said Cynthia Lett, director of the Lett Group, a protocol training company in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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The debate was attended by nearly 100 participants, and speakers including Jeremy Dear (NUJ), Nicholas Jones (previous BBC correspondent), Charlie Beckett (Director of POLIS), John Kelly (Reuters Institute Visiting Fellow, Washington Post) and Ashley Norris, (Co-founder and Director of Shiny Media), providing compelling statements drawn from a wealth and range of professional experience.

UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2008