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HOLIDAY

NEWS4U

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mUSic / Alicia Keys: The Main Key to Succes

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ciNEmA / Meryl Streep - The Woman with Thousand Faces

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cULTPERSON / Tom Cruise and Scientology

.................................8

RELiGiON / Scientology

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L ANGUAGE

LiTERATURE / Jabberwocky

........................................................12

PHENOmENON / Hot Dog Stands and Other Street Foods

...........14

HOLiDAY / How May Day Became a Workers’ Holiday

.................16

EVENT / High School Proms

.........................................................18

LifETimE / Magic of Colours

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QUiZ / Colour Idioms

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FINANCIAL SUCCESS

QUiZ / Was My Face Red!

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LANGUAGE / English blues!

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LANGUAGE / The Very Best of British: Around the House

............24

iDiOmS / You Don’t Say

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fiNANciAL SUccESS / Thinking Like A Winner

..........................28

BUSiNESS ENGLiSH / Letter Style: Suggestions

.........................30

NOTABENE

HUmOR / The American Army - Then and Now

.................................32

LifEUP / Military Humor

...............................................................33

ficTiON / The Plain Truth (by Claire Calman)

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NOTABENE / Отрицательные конструкции

в английском языке

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