疯狂英语阅读：VIPOF2001

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Elaine chao - the most powerful chinese-american woman in the us

My parents are wonderfully inspiring people and when I think about how we came to America, I think about their courage and their determination. And so I have great admiration for my parents and for what theyve sacrificed for our family. Throughout my career I have had tremendous guidance and counsel from my parents. And theyve always reminded me and my sisters of our ethnic heritage and that we should take great pride in our ethnic heritage and that we must never forget where we are from and what our values are. And I have found that to be of tremendous value and of great comfort to me. I feel as if Im very blessed to understand two worlds. And if I can play a constructive role in helping Americans, white Americans understand the rest of the, the rest of Asian America, and also understand overseas, I think thats, a wonderful thing that a person can do. And 1)conversely when I go backto Asia and I’m able to visit with different people, Im able to, I hope share with them a viewpoint about America. Thats also revealing. I think our world is getting smaller and we need to have much greater understanding of one another.

Ive never really planned my career. Ive always just wanted to number one bring honor to my parents and to bring honor to my family and to contribute to my community. So Ive never had a grand plan but Ive always wanted to do something worthwhile and to help other people and if I can do that, then I feel very satisfied.

Hillary clinton:new kid on the block

Yale Student: Weve got one of our own Yale Senators right here with us on stage.

Only the warmest of welcomes from Yales graduating class, its 300th. Her address combined humor...

Hillary Clinton: In all the years since I have been at Yale, the most important thing that I have to say today is that hair matters.

...politics and 2)reminiscences from her years as a Yale University law student. But her main theme, a 3)plea for students not to 4)turn away from the political process.

Hillary Clinton: Bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics.

Hillary Clinton: President Bushs extremely large tax plan would spend trillions we dont have and may never have. If we reverse the engines of economic growth by adopting President Bushs tax proposal, I fear that we will reverse the progress weve made by increasing interest rates now and by 5)saddling our children with big debts in the future. I know and respect that President Bush supports faith-based programs but his tax plan should not be one of them. Going forward with a huge tax proposal now is like getting a letter from 6)Ed McMan and going out to buy a 7)yacht. A surplus projection is not a promise. And if the past is any guide, its not even a likely outcome.

Hillary Clinton(At National Press Club): This is a very creative, imaginative group. No, I have said that I am not running. And I am having a great time being pres...of being a first-term, being a first-term Senator. You are going to get me into so much trouble.

Putin-a strong hand

There was none of the usual 11)fanfare accompanying a presidential entrance. The simple, informal handshakes of the three journalists to send the message to the thousands watching online that this Russian leader is relaxed and accessible and not afraid of the worlds questions.

Over 15,000 Internet users had emailed in advance. Thousands more queries came in during the live webcast. Mr. Putin dealt with everything fluently, but 12)gave little ground politically. Onequestion from Denmark challenged his policy over Chechnya.

Putin(Interpreters Voice): I want to thank your correspondent for that question because it reflects perfectly the Wests complete lack of understanding of whats going on in the 13)Caucasus and in Chechnya in particular. The Russian army and the Russian peopleve never waged any 14)campaign against the Chechnyan people.

But it was the personal answers that were most revealing, his passion for sport and his obsession with Russian history. Even the book he is currently reading is about Russias imperial past. And from behind the 15)steely 16)gaze, there emerged a surprisingly 17)meek husband.

Putin(Interpreters Voice): I cant tell my wife what to do. Our relations are such that if I do, I usually find it backfires. She behaves as she sees fit.

Not so long ago a live webcast like this from the heart of the Kremlin would have been unthinkable. But thats precisely why Mr. Putin wanted to do it, to counter fears that he might be trying to return Russian to the past and to prove hes a thoroughly modern president.

Milosevic:still making history

This is the first time a former head of state is being brought to trial and brought to justice under an international tribunal, the first time ever. And the former Yugoslavian Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic behaved, well, like a head of state. He 18)thumbed his nose at the tribunal. He said that he did not recognize its jurisdiction. He said that this was a politically motivated trial and he generally defied the entire proceedings here. The point of today’s first appearance since his transfer here to the Hague on Thursday night was to have the charges read out against him, to ask him whether he understood the charges and to allow him to enter his plea.

Milosevic, we have been told by his lawyers last night, would refuse to be defended, would have no 20)defense counsel with him and would want to make a statement having said that he decided and he declared that his transfer here was unconstitutional and illegal and he would not cooperate with this tribunal proceeding. Well, the first question the presiding judge asked was whether he wanted to reconsider the fact that he had no defense counsel.

Milosevic: I consider this tribunal forced tribunal and 21)indictments forced indictments. It is illegal being not appointed by 22)UN General Assembly so I have no need to appoint counsel to illegal order.

The next question of course was, “Do you want the indictment read out against you or do you 23)waive that right?” Milosevic at that point said, “Thats your problem” and to that there was a general 24)titter of amusement and 25)chuckles in the gallery because those who have been following Milosevic for the last ten to 13 years know that this performance was 26)vintage Milosovic. His jaw was 27)jutting out, heseemed to be playing to the gallery back at home. He kept looking at the public gallery basically right into the court-appointed cameras there and he kept trying to say that this was a politically motivated proceeding. He said the justification for this proceeding was to hide what he called, “war crimes that NATO committed against Yugoslavia.”

The presiding judge kept trying to move the proceedings along cutting him off when the speeches tended to go on and he said, “We now take your answers to say that you have waived your right. You never entered a plea, the court then under its rule entered a plea of not guilty” on Milosevics behalf and the four counts of crimes against humanity and the violation of laws and customs of war with which he is accused.

After that Milosevic again tried to make a 28)closing statement, the closingspeech. He was again cut off and at that point rather dramatically, the court guards lowered the curtains that separate the public gallery the press and others who were watching from the courtroom proceedings. He was surrounded by several 29)burly UN guards and he was escorted out of the courtroom and back to his detention 30)cell in the prison.

Bush and cheney:a yale graduate and a yale 0dropout

(Bush speaking at Yale University)

Bush: As I recall, one of my academic advisers was worried about my 0selection of 33)such a specialized course. He said I should focuson English. I still hear that quite often. But my critics dont realize I dont make verbal 34)gaffes. Im speaking in the perfect forms and rhythms of ancient 35)Haiku. I want the entire world to know this: everything I know about the spoken word, I learned right here at Yale.

In private and increasingly in public, U.S. allies are impatient and angry over George Bushs tendency to walk away from one international treaty after another.

Bush: Make no mistake about it, I think its important to move beyond the ABM treaty.

Already Bush has pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto agreement on global warming. He said hes ready to scrap theAnti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a cornerstone of arms control, opposed a treaty setting up an international criminal court and weakened a UN agreement to stop the flow of small arms to conflict zones.

Lee Hamilton: I think the Unites States more and more now is being seen as the 38)bully on the block...

Hamilton, formerly a leading voice on foreign affairs in the US Congress, says Bush is only hurting the US by pursuing 39)go-it-alone policies.

On 40)Wednesday at a conference in Geneva, the U.S. undermined another international agreement. This one spearheaded by Canada to enforce a treaty banning biological weapons.

Critics say in the long run the U.S. will pay a price for taking a “my way or the highway” kind of approach to foreign and defense policy. They say that as a superpower with interests all around the world, the U.S. has as much to gain as any country from a global system based on international law and cooperation.

Most important, congratulations to the class of 2001. To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you, too can be President of the United States. A Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind Dick Cheney, who studied here, but left a little early. So now we know, if you graduate from Yale, you become President. If you 0drop out, you get to be Vice President.

Well, the U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is back in hospital in Washington after complaining of new chest pains. Medical staff at the hospital say hes suffering from a partly 42)blocked 43)artery but he didn’t have a heart attack. Mr. Cheney suffered a mild heart attack last November and in 1988 he had 44)quadruple 45)bypass surgery to clear 46)clogged arteries.

The vice president spent the night in hospital after doctors performed an urgent procedure on Monday to clear a partly blocked artery.

Dr.Jonathan Reiner (47)Cardiologist at George Washington Hospital): The question is how serious are his heart problems? You know the vice president has had 48)coronary disease for several decades now. You know certainly for about 25 years. So he has 49)chronic, chronic coronary artery disease. This is you know what affects millions of people in this country.

Dick Cheney is one of the most influential and best-connected men in Washington, a driven workaholic, successful businessman, a very successful politician. But his health poses problems. He suffered his fourth heart attack less than a 50)fortnight after being elected vice-president. President Bush 51)deflected questions about Mr. Cheney’s latest trip to hospital.

Bush: ...precautionary measures...

Dick Cheney is the 52)linchpin of the Bush administration. And the doctors say theres a 40% chance of his heart problems recurring within six months.

Vice President Dick Cheney returns to work today. Hes a tough guy. Hes got a new heart device, a 53)defibrillator, which is designed to correct an irregular heartbeat. The implantable 54)cardioverter defibrillator is set to correct a rapid heartbeat and also if necessary to administer an electrical impulses to return the heartbeat to normal. He has a long history, Mr. Cheney does, of coronary disease. He suffered four heart attacks since 1978. He went to the hospital there on Saturday had this done and he’s going to report to work here this morning and a lot of us are hoping Mr. Cheneys health remains OK.

Chirac: tough times ahead

The French President Jacques Chirac is facing, will face, one of the toughest tests of his political career. In a televised interview on 55)Bastille Day, he will defend himself against an investigation into his personal finances that has shocked the French country.

The net is closing on the Chirac family with news that Claude Chirac, the president’s daughter and media advisor, has been questioned by magistrates over some $400,000 spent on holidays in hard cash over a three-year period when Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris.

Judges want to know where this vast mountain of cash came from and theyre likely to question the presidents wife Bernadette and theyre making moves to go after the president himself even though hes head of state and has legal immunity. The question is will he agree to face questioning? Public opinion has shifted dramatically. A poll this week found that some two thirds of French citizens want their president to answer the judges’ questions.

Now Jacques Chirac says that much of this cash came from the special or secret fund which he had access to when he was a minister. The trouble is he left the government some four years earlier. And so the French people are being asked to believe that every night for around four years Jacques Chirac would go to bed with some 200,000 pounds stashed under his mattress. The other problem is: do people really think that the special funds were designed so that ex-ministers and their 56)coterie could travel the world in luxury?

Its hard to overstate the significance of the 57)tussle now going on between president and his would-be inquisitors. Tomorrow Paris celebrates Bastille Day, a day when Frances armed forces parade through the capital. This year Jacques Chirac as never before seems to be in need of their protection.

Happy events

Cuban President Fidel Castro marking his 75th birthday in Venezuela with a party hosted by his friend and singing partner President Hugo Chavez. Mr. Castro was toasted with champagne and cake at a celebration that went on for some hours. Venezuela is a 58)staunch supporter of Cuba. Back in Havana, Cubans celebrated Mr. Castros birthday without him or cake or songs. They had some marching though.

In Johannesburg a double celebration for Nelson Mandela.

“Happy Birthday Mr. Mandela, may your dreams all come true, may your face see the sunshine, happy birthday to you....”

Schoolchildren helped surprise the former South African president who turned 83 years old on Wednesday. The day also marks Mandela’s third wedding anniversary.