Q: (CNN) -- During the weeks of debates triggered by Edward Snowden and his release of information about a classified National Security Agency spying program, the story has moved further and further from the actual surveillance and centered instead on the international cat-and-mouse game to find him.

What has been remarkable is how Democrats have expressed little opposition to the surveillance program. Many Democrats have simply remained silent as these revelations have emerged while others, like California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have openly defended the program.

President Barack Obama, while initially acknowledging the need for a proper balance between civil liberties and national security, has increasingly focused on defending the government and targeting Snowden. When former President George W. Bush offered comments that echoed much of the president's sentiment, some of his supporters couldn't help but cringe as these two one-time adversaries came together on the issue of counterterrorism.

The loss of a Democratic opposition to the framework of counterterrorism policy has been one of the most notable aspects of Obama's term in office. Although Obama ran in 2008 as a candidate who would change the way the government conducted its business and restore a better balance with civil liberties, it has not turned out that way. Obama has barely dismantled any of the Bush programs, and sometimes even expanded their reach in the use of drone strikes and the targeting of American citizens. He has also undertaken an aggressive posture toward those who criticize his program.

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Answer the following questions:
1. Who started the arguments?
2. What did he do with info?
3. What was the info about?
4. How long was the arguing?
5. Who was president while this was going on?
6. What country did this happen in?
7. When did the president run for his position?
8. Whose policies did he want to take apart?
9. What position did Bush have in the government?
10. Before Obama?
A: 1. Edward Snowden
2. released information
3. National Security Agency spying program
4. weeks
5. Barack Obama
6. America
7. 2008
8. Bush
9. President
10. Yes
Q: In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (?, [bu.i]) or buke (?). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashu (905914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.

By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy, and they followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushido. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.

Answer the following questions:
1. What percent of the population in Japan are samurai?
2. Do they still have an impact today?
3. How so?
4. And anything else?
5. What other country are they in?
6. Is there a Japanese saying that means the same thing?
A: 1. less than 10%
2. yes
3. both everyday life
4. in modern Japanese martial arts.
5. unknown
6. yes
Q: Nathan Phillips, who will formally begin his freshman year at the University of San Diego(USD) on Aug. 31, will arrive on campus in an unusual and philanthropic manner.

Phillips is expected to arrive between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday on his bicycle, having pedaled 1,450 miles from Astoria, Ore.

Phillips combined his desire to complete a long bike ride before entering college with his interest in helping the children of Uganda.

He is raising funds for Invisible Children, a San Diegobased organization seeking to end conflicts annoying northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic and stop the use of children as soldiers.

Phillips had raised $1,540 before embarking Aug.11 and hopes to reach $2,000.

Phillips, who is from Redmond, Washington, visited Uganda during high school and worked in an orphanage there. He was also inspired by a presentation by Invisible Children at his high school.

"I have been to Uganda and personally gotten to know some of the kids affected by the war," Phillips said in a statement released by the university."I would do anything to help these kids."

Phillips' new roommate, Kyle Sharp, has joined him for the last 600 miles of the trip. Students and other members of the USD community are expected to join him for the last 13 miles.

"Nathan's passionate commitment to improving the lives of children more than 8,000 miles away resonates with USD's mission to prepare future leaders to change the world for the better," Pamela Gray Payton, assistant vice president of public affairs at USD, said in a prepared statement."We are delighted to have Nathan as a member of our campus community."

Supporters from USD and Invisible Children will greet Phillips and his followers when they arrive in front of Founders Hall on campus. The public is invited as well.

Answer the following questions:
1. How much money has Nathan Phillips collected?
2. For what?
3. Where is that group located?
4. What does it want end using kids for?
5. Where?
6. Has Nathan ever been to Uganda?
7. When?
8. Where did he work there?
9. Who is he trying to assist?
10. Where is he headed?
11. Why?
12. What is he starting at USD
13. When does school start?
14. What mode of transportation is he taking to school?
15. What day will he get there?
16. What time will he get there?
17. Where is he coming from?
18. How big is the distance?
19. Did someone ride he final 600 miles with him?
20. Who?
A:
1. $1,540
2. raising funds for Invisible Children
3. San Diego
4. as soldiers
5. northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic
6. Yes
7. during high school
8. worked in an orphanage there
9. raising funds for Invisible Children
10. University of San Diego(USD)
11. combined his desire to complete a long bike ride before entering college
12. unknown
13. Aug. 31
14. on his bicycle
15. Aug. 31
16. between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
17. Astoria, Ore
18. 1,450 miles
19. Yes
20. Kyle Sharp