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西アメリカのカリフォルニア州では、歌手のマイケルジャクソン氏が子供に性的虐待をはたらいたという罪に対して無実であることを認めました。
その決定は７日間の審議によって決められたもようです。
裁判は３ヶ月半にもおよびました。
裁判によると、ジャクソン氏は１３歳の少年に対してアルコールを摂取させ性的虐待をはたらいていないことを認めました。
また少年の家族を自宅に拘束したことも罪にはならないとされています。
政府弁護士は、ジャクソン氏には少年に対して性的虐待をはたらいてきた経歴があると述べています。
歌手や演奏家たちは、その決定に対して疑問を抱いています。

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And now, having spent 25 years in the classroom, having visited literally thousands of Australian schools, as one of the country's most successful authors, John Marsden intends to realise a dream. On this 485-hectare property, less than an hour from Melbourne, he's planning his perfect school. It's time, he says, to put his money where his mouth is.

JOHN MARSDEN: One of the first things a school should pay attention to is the physical environment, whether it's in the city or the country, that beauty is important and we should value it and we should surround young people around it so that they grow up in that atmosphere of beauty. What I want is a school full of surprises, a school that's innovative and flexible at the same time as we do maintain that academic standard. I want a school that's got a sense of humour. I want a school where we say "yes" to things instead of "no".

It seems like most schools have a banner fluttering from the flagpole with the word "no" written on it. In creating a school, I want the perfect school. I know I won't get it but I must always aspire to it.

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John Marsden is a popular Australian children's author who's also spent a lot of time working with and teaching young people. And now he want to open his own, perfect school.John Marsden is at the Glen Waverley Secondary College doing what he does best - filling kids' heads with ideas. For years, John Marsden has been arguing that Australia's schools, be they state or private, are full of rigid structures and overbearing rules, cumbersome frameworks which hinder learning.

JOHN MARSDEN: The idea of engaging with intellectual and challenging topics and ideas and questions is good. If we start from those principles, then it becomes much easier to get a sense of how a school should function. You start to realise that there shouldn't be a kind of enmity between adults and young people. It should be the opposite. There should be a wonderful alliance, where we're all moving creatively towards understanding things in as profound a way as possible.

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Short hand is not good because it gives too much infomation. You only have to write keywords.

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French President Jacques Chirac will speak to his nation Tuesday night. He is expected to say what steps he will take after French voters rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union. The vote was held Sunday. Mr. Chirac met with Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin and other political officials Monday. The French leader was expected to ask one of them to form a new government. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is likely to resign over the vote.

仏大統領ジャック＝シラクは火曜の夜、国民に向けて演説をする予定です。そこで彼はEU憲法条約の批准がフランス国民投票で否決されたあと、どのような手順をふむかを述べるとされています。その投票は日曜に行われました。シラク氏は月曜にドミニク＝ドビルパン内相と他の政治官とともに会見を行いました。仏首相は彼らの内の1人に新しい政府を設立するよう求めるとされています。ジーン＝ピエール＝ラファリン仏首相はその投票を機に引退すると予想されています。

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□garble: （事実や情報を）曲げる、誤り伝える、混同する［こと／されたもの］、（データ通信で）データが誤受送信されること（ここでは random garbleで「むちゃくちゃになった（破壊された）データのこと）
□some tips on...: …についての秘訣、助言、ヒント
□malicious: 悪意に満ちた
□reluctant: いやいやの、ちゅうちょして、気乗りのしない
□herald: 先駆けとなる
□known to society at large: 世間一般に知られる
□reach epic proportions: 大きな問題となる（epic はここでは「大きく取り上げるに値するような」というニュアンス。proportionsは「大きさ・規模」を表す（a problem of great proportions で「重大な問題」）

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(1) GM and Toyota / are reportedly close to [signing] a joint venture accord / [to produce] more than 200,000 sub-compact cars a year in the U.S. /
(2) In the meantime, / U.S. embassies in the Middle East / [were reported] to have been placed on full alert / [in expectation of] some kind of terrorist attack. /

(3) On the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market, / the U.S. currency [opened] at\105.50 / and followed a steady uptrend to \106.40 / before [ending] the morning session. /

(4) Imports [fell] by 30.6 percent from 1990, / mainly [owing] to the rapid and substantial appreciation on the yen. /

(5) AIDS is a disease / in which a virus [attacks] the body's immune system, leaving the victim [susceptible to] a wide variety of infections and cancers. /

(6) During the Watergate investigation, / Nixon defenders insisted that, / while much impropriety could be observed, / no proof of presidential obstruction of justice / -- "no smoking gun" -- / had been found. /

(7) [Although] the current tariff reduction plan / excluded many other items considered vital to the U.S. / -- such as citrus and beef product -- / [sources close to] the U.S. Trade Representatives said / that Washington was quite happy with this move towards trade liberalization. /

(8) A Korean Air jet / with 115 people abroad / on a flight from the Middle East / [was missing] somewhere near Burma, / and may [have crashed] into the sea or thick jungle. / Officials said / the missing plane was over the Andaman Sea / when contact was lost. / Experts say / that recovery of the flight recorder, / which could explain the disaster, / will probably be difficult / because the aircraft crashed in waters 3,600 meters deep.

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PBS
・personal prime minister
・laber party

Repeating
・pronunciation of 'observe'
・how to say of 'as well as'

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