2003 August | Here & Now

Friday, August 29, 2003

Bombing in Najaf; Indian Gaming and the California Recall; Gay Divorce; Loise Gluck Named Next Poet Laureate; Gas Prices: Editorial Roundtable; Gillian Welch Sings Hard Country; Videopicks

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Thursday, August 28, 2003

Blair Grilled on Iraq; U.S. Reexamines Iraq Intelligence; Black Women Not Getting Adequate Health Care; American Dream; The Consequences of Cluster Bombs; Letters; Orbiting with the Skatalites

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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Arafat Calls for Truce; Bremer Call for Billions of U.S. Dollars to Iraq; Future All Stars; Prepaid College; State College Tuition Hikes: Some Students Calls Them Unconstitutional; Albino Hummingbird; People’s History of Ancient Rome

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Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Record Budget Deficit; Red Cross Will Thin Staff in Iraq, Cites Danger to Aid Workers; White Firefighters to Join Force by Court Order; Report of Weapon Grade Uranium in Iran; Exercise in Motivation; Report Targets Flaws in NASA Culture, Shuttle Faults; Mars Closer Than Ever this Millennium; Bagpiping Warning; The Personal Music of Kyler England

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Monday, August 25, 2003

Bombs Rock Bombay, Killing Dozens; Convicted Priest Geoghan Killed in Prison; Oregon Firefighters Killed in Crash; Argentina Repeals Decades-Old Amnesty for Domestic War Criminals; Bush Poll Numbers Slipping; Old Man Howard; Not Rock Stars: Old Folk Age Gracefully

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Friday, August 22, 2003

Afghanistan Remains Volatile, Civilians Killed; Monrovia Today; Thou Shalt Not in Alabama; Fox: You Can’t Be “Fair and Balanced”; Magdalene Sisters

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Thursday, August 21, 2003

Israel Kills Hamas Leader in Missile Strike; Calls for More Troops in Iraq; Heat in France; New Book by Russian Theater Hostage; Housing Study; No War? No Pizza!; Channeling the Spirit with Diana Darby

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Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Reacting to the Baghdad U.N. Bombing; Taking Out the Trash in Iraq; Cicero in America; A Clean Well Lighted Place… to Shoot Up; New Treatment for Heroin Addiction; Law of the Land v. Law of the Prophets; Stuffed Tomatoes

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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Explosion in Baghdad; Kelly Investigation; Software Rules, Worm Trouble; Job Change; Grubman; Hot Microbe; Thirteen

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Monday, August 18, 2003

Will Congress Act in Wake of Blackout?; Technology and Power Outages; Pentagon Allegedly Quashed Liberia Report; Democrats Eye 2004; Iraq Update; U.S. Soldier’s Pay; Rubber Duck Research; Classical Transcriptions

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Friday, August 15, 2003

Officials Investigate Blackout

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Thursday, August 14, 2003

Rebels Cease Monrovian Seige; World Arms Dealer; Saudi Arabia Launches PR Campaign; Baton Rouge Desegregation Lawsuit; Family Opposes Planned Harvey Milk School; Letters 08/14/2003; Postcard Poetry Results

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Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Missile Sting Nabs Suspected Dealer; Missile Technology Legislation; Episcopal Church Debate; Iraq Official Tells of Money Problems; The Situation in Iraq; Kids at the Movies; Step into Liquid

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Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Bombings Kill Two Israelis; Bush to Meet Advisors on Economy; Analyzing the Jobless Recovery; New Cancer Therapies; ABA President Dennis Archer; Sorting Out the California Election; Sounds of the Newport Music Festivals

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Monday, August 11, 2003

Liberian President Taylor Resigns; Campaign Expenses Mount in 2004; Public Opinion and Presidential Politics; West Nile Virus Claims Fifth Victim; Concierge Primary Care at Tufts Medical; Flash Mobbing; Cultural Collisions in Literature

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Friday, August 8, 2003

Official Makes Iraq Chemical Weapons Claim; Hawash Gets 8-10 Years for Taliban Work; Banks Investigated for Tax Fraud; Iran-Contra Players; Big Story, Small Town; Talk to Me; Dirty Pretty Things

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Thursday, August 7, 2003

Deadly Car Bomb in Baghdad; Iraqi TV Head Quits; Robert E. Lee, Part II; Candidates Rush California Recall; Listener Letters 8/7/03; Remembering Celia Cruz

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Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Critics Threaten Split Over Gay Bishop Appointment; Ashcroft Watches Judges and Soft Sentencing; Juries Impose Death Sentences; Robert E. Lee, Part 1; California Candidacy Deadline; Oil in Alaska’s Tundra; Rialto Fish Market

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Tuesday, August 5, 2003

Indonesia Blast Kills at Least 13; Gay Episcopal Bishop Vote Delayed; Economist Magazine Challenges Berlusconi; Ethanol Additives, Fuel Efficiency, and the Environment; NYC Officials Review DNA in Sex Crimes; Vaccine Insurance Policy; Chicago Officials Say Mobster’s Body Unearthed; Placebo

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Monday, August 4, 2003

West African Peacekeepers in Liberia; Liberian Refugees; Parents on Their $400 Rebate; Celebrity Candidates; Arafat Detains Militants at Compound; Government Rules on Israeli Mixed Marriages; Bad Gigli Reviews; Chick Rockers

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Running legend Alberto Salazar. (Photo Alex Ashlock)

Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock recently sat down with Alberto Salazar, one of the top distance runners in American sports history.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
A portrait of Dickens at age 29, painted during his 1842 American trip by Boston artist Francis Alexander. It’s on loan to the UMass Lowell exhibit from the MFA where it hasn’t been seen in 30 years. Diana Archibald says it shows the young Dickens’ penchant for flashy dress, which inspired another part of the Lowell exhibit, “Dickens as Steampunk Muse.” (Courtesy Of Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

“People think of Dickens as that old guy with the beard that’s not relevant. And he is relevant! In fact, I think of him as sort of like Jon Stewart, he uses wit,” said Diana Archibald, a Dickens scholar. Dickens was born 200 years ago, we look back on his trip to the famous mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in 1842.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Jasmine Zhuang, a Yale junior who says she avoided checking the "asian" box on her college application out of fear it would prevent her from getting in. (Courtesy Jasmine Zhuang)

When it comes to college applications, some Asian-Americans are purposely not checking the race box. For many, it has nothing to do with their heritage, and everything to do with the high expectations that come with it.

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