Eugene McCarthy was born in nineteen sixteen in the town of Watkins,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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Watkins says there also has been an increase in the number and gravity of attacks against international aid organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Watkins says 68 percent of the appeal is now covered, but more than half of that money is for food assistance.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan Robert Watkins says UN agencies increasingly have to rely on private Afghan organizations to deliver assistance to people in need.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07