How come many hip hop songs' lyrics tend to be a little raunchy?

Anyway, freedom of expression in artistic activities.

This global economy seems to be cobbled in times of crises.

How come so many mavens work in and contribute to the U.S.?

Indeed, the United States of America is blessed.

During tempestuous periods, patience and constancy might be the most powerful helpers.

2010年度值得关注一下的两部热门的华语电影

姜文作品：《让子弹飞》
与
台湾作品：《艋舺》（这部映画貌似有些深意在其中）

At my level of English proficiency, perusing The Economist is still an uphill scraping.

The major reason behind that is that I lack the sufficiently cosmopolitan knowledge about Europe, Latin America, world politics, culture, European languages, and so on, which many people in this world in fact possess.

Anyway, all's well that ends well.

Aftertaste

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Aftertaste is what distinguishes first-tier and second-tier coffee for the most part, say, Starbucks' "Caffè Verona" and Nabob's "Traditional".

Analogously, is aftertaste what discriminates good work and bad work? Also, is it what differentiates a good life led by a man and a not-so-good life?

Hmm.

The countability and uncountability of English nouns are arid.

Under the seemingly calm faces in Canada, how many people are just scraping a living in this era which gets an earful of "financial crisis" and "debt crisis"?

Frictions fray people's nerves.

I don't know. Certain parts of the Western Europe seem to have been paragons of elegance.

No wonder Americans always like to learn European languages.

Now that Facebook has vanquished most consumers' favor,

how long is it going to retain them?

Sometimes bunglers tend to have bigger ambitions than professionals do, because the latter have more experience of this rule: reality checks.

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I for one don't know and can't fathom how much pretense and humbug financiers put on, even when they are dealing with people's retirement money.

And, as for those so-called "financial advisors", many of them merely are SALESMEN of financial products. Their "ADVICES" you take not, my friend.

I haven't been closely following the reporting on the causes of the current financial crisis.

Has there been a cogent explanation beside the sub-prime mortgages?

Do you want to become a maven?

What do frayed jeans indicate?

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Stuff worn by time and your own activities can be claimed as solely yours. Of course, you can expend extra dollars and buy that pair of frayed or ripped denim off the shelf.

I wonder if Mr. Bill Clinton's reputation was really scraped by his Lewinsky scandal.

He still seems to be all influential in American political scene.

How many foreign secret emissaries are there in Canada? And how many ones are in each country?

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Espionage, especially industrial espionage, has never really ceased its existence since the end of the Cold War, I heard.

Humble succor shines glorious humanity.