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In the News: Family, notables say goodbye to Russert

(2008-06-18 17:01:45) 下一個
CNN today Full article here

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Brokaw lifted a bottle of Rolling Rock beer in tribute to fallen colleague Tim Russert, part of a day of tributes that brought the nation's top journalists and politicians and even Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain together...

"We are going to do it Irish style," Brokaw, who pilfered the Rolling Rock from Russert's cooler, said at the memorial service held at the Kennedy Center.

"There will be some tears, some laughs and the occasional truth."...

"It is not easy to preach a homily for Tim and to communicate the feelings we all share concerning this remarkable man, for he was truly one of the great communicators in American society," Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop emeritus of Washington, said in his homily...

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Three words today:
pilfer - 偷, steal
homily - 說教, a short sermon
emeritus - 名譽的(退休), one retired from professional life but permitted to retain as an honorary title the rank of the last office held



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