2004 March | Here & Now

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Afghanistan President Seeks $28 Billion; Al Qaeda’s Number Two; Mexican Citizens on American Death Row; Celebrity in Chief; OPEC to Cut Output; Gas Prices and Presidential Politics; Remembering Alistair Cooke; Ghosts of Rwanda

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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Rice to Testify in 9/11 Hearing; Bush Team Gets Karen Hughes; Eight Terrorism Suspects Captured Near London; Ammonium Nitrate Bomb Prevention; Catholic Bishop Approves Condom Use; Left Behind; Tent City Proposed for Denver’s Homeless; James’ Journey to Jerusalem

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Monday, March 29, 2004

Rice Refuses Public Hearing; Arab League Summit Collapses; Sharon Bribery Scandal; Tyco Trial Suffers Jury Snag; Mass. Lawmakers Reconvene on Gay Marriage; Highway Security; Olympics Readiness; Literature of the Misanthrope

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Friday, March 26, 2004

9/11 Commission Aftermath; Gas Prices Surge; Explosion on Interstate 95; Palestinian Boy; The Best Editorial Cartoons; Shattered Glass; Lady Killers

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Families React to 9/11 Hearings; Campaign Finance Numbers; Syria’s Political Makeup; Iraq Check-In; Tuberculosis Funding; Letters 3/25/04; Escaping the Delta

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Wednesday, March 24, 2004

9/11 Panel Questions Tenet, Clarke; Iraq Power; My Name is Bill; Medicare Report Sees Bankruptcy in 2019; EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million; Kosovo Village Burns in New Ethnic Violence; TV to DVD

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

9/11 Hearings Underway; Terry Nichols on Trial for Life; The Future of Hamas; Morocco and Muslim Fundamentalism; AIDS Drug Protest; Human-Animal Virus Transfer; Sol y Canto

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Monday, March 22, 2004

Hamas Leader Killed in Israeli Strike; Former Official Points to 9/11 Intelligence Failure; U.N. Oil for Food Scandal; U.S. Relationship with Europe; Atheist Political Party Seeks Recognition; Yee Charges Dropped; Video Game Poetry

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Friday, March 19, 2004

Pakistan’s Border Hunt; Taiwan Leaders Survive Shooting; Ethnic Violence Flares in Kosovo; Iraq War One Year On; Editorial Rountable: What’s On Voters’ Minds?; War and Crusade; Eternal Sunshine

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Thursday, March 18, 2004

Medicare Reform Cost Confusion; Iraq Security Questioned Following Two Attacks; EU Security Meeting in Brussels; One Year in Iraq; Jim DeMint on Jobs; Letters 03/18/04; When the Music Stopped

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Homeland Security Status; Israel Reviews Unsolved Bomb Cases; Iraq Coalition Launches Insurgent Offensive; Safety for Foreign Civilians in Iraq; EPA Mercury Standards Scandal; American Unions Seek China Sanctions; Potential Drop Outs Get Warning; The Real Ireland; Beer, Beer, Beer

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Pakistan Troops Clash at Border; Spain Officials Investigate Moroccan Militants; Greece Concerned Over Olympic Security; House Approves Private Space Flight; Jobs and Big Government; Outsourcing Benefits; Atheists; Sin

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Monday, March 15, 2004

Spain’s New Government Vows to Pull Iraq Troops; Mass. Company Involved in Pakistan Smuggling; U.S. Tax Review; Shell Under Fire in Oil Reserve Claims; Illinois Senate Race; Dean to Announce Plan for America; The Country Out of Nashville

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Friday, March 12, 2004

Spain Holds Vigils After Attacks; Putin Evident in Russia Elections; Canadian Drug Imports; Bush and Kerry, Skull and Bones; Election Check-In; Farmer Denied Mad Cow Testing; “Secret Window”; Other Religious Films

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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Madrid Bombings Kill Scores; MA Lawmakers Consider Gay Marriage; India-Pakistan Cricket Face Off; Outsourcing Good?; Letters 03/11/04; Building Ballerina Shoes

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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Congress Hears Testimony on Campaign Ads; All Eyes on Homeland Security; Iran Announces Uranium Enrichment; When I Was Cool; Gonorrhea Strain; Abstinence and STDs; Libya’s Tourism; Willem Dafoe

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Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Iraqis React to Constitution; Abu Musab Zarqawi; Anti-Government Protester Detained in Syria; Hormone Replacement in Women; Outsourcing to India; Naming the Cabinet; Dogs and Manhole Covers; Vinyl Junkies

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Monday, March 8, 2004

Florida Faces Primary; Congress Considers Defense Budget; Military Father Calls for Equipment Improvement; Iraq Council Signs Constitution; Sunni-Shiite Relations; Chinese Doctor Calls for Tiananmen Apology; Warren Buffet’s Annual Letter; Logan Airport Sound Exhibit; Jazz and Jazzy Film Scores

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Friday, March 5, 2004

At the Pump; Poll Shows Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat; Bush Meets Fox on Immigrant Issues; The Price of Loyalty; Political Humor; Sunni and Shiite Unity; Hidalgo

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Thursday, March 4, 2004

Iraqis Call For Sunni-Shiite Unity; Abu Ghraib Prison; Lesbian Couple Custody Case; Finding Ali; Steroids in Basketball; Wyoming Elk Deaths; Letters 03/04/04; Ugandan Jewish Music

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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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