2004 May | Here & Now

Monday, May 31, 2004

Saudi Officials Investigate Shooting; Corruption and the Russian Police; Memorial Day Activities; Prisoner of War Speaks; Ad Watch; My Uncle; Grilling; Music and War

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Friday, May 28, 2004

Kennedy on the Fall Classic of Politics; Jeb Bush Seeks Felon Vote Ban; Cheaper by the Fifteen; War Monument Opens in Washington; Bullet Shortage; Lang Lang; Melvin Van Peebles

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Thursday, May 27, 2004

British Police Capture Terrorist Suspect; Haiti and Dominican Republic Flood Disaster; Prostate Cancer and Tumors; Settlers Story; Handover in Iraq; New York Times Apologizes for WMD Coverage; Letters 05/27/04; Gore Speaks; OCD Art

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Terrorist Threats to the U.S.; Security Report Says Al Qaeda Recruiting; Mahdi Army Negotiations; Kissinger Transcripts Released; Chicago Cardinal Refuses Communion to Gay Members; The Bride’s Stunt Woman; Prions in Sheep; Mimi Sheraton

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Prison Will Come Down, Forces Will Stay; Kerry’s Iraq Plan; Iran and Chalabi; DNA Damage in Mice; NY Attorney General Sues Richard Grasso; Male Breast Cancer; Vermont Endangered; Quest for a film Distributor

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Monday, May 24, 2004

Blast Near Iraq Coalition HQ; Homeland Security Proposes Virtual Border; Atomic Bomb from Scratch; Farm School; Bush to Outline Iraq Plans; Sea Island; Donna Leon

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Friday, May 21, 2004

New Abu Ghraib Photos Released, Chalabi Raid Facts Surface; Hong Kong Radio Hosts Anger Beijing; Sending Money Home; Driving Habits and Gas Prices; Attorneys General Seek Gas Price Investigation; Indiana Pacers’ Rick Carlisle; Singer Eszter Balint

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Thursday, May 20, 2004

Forces Raid Chalabi’s Home; U.N. Condemns Rafah Attacks; Arab Team Wins Israeli Soccer League; Procurement; Anthony Cordesman on Iraq; Letters 5/20/04; OCD Art; Gay Marriage and Lesbians; Spring Storm

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Giuliani Testifies before 9/11 Commission; U.S. Central Command Faces Senate Hearing; Sivits Sentenced in Abu Ghraib Scandal; National Identity; Kerry Meets Nader; Rafah Refugee Camp Attacked; Randy Johnson Throws a Perfect Game; Shrek II; Godzilla

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

9/11 Commission Looks at Terrorism Response; State Department Terrorism Report Challenged; India’s Presidential Problem; Spyware; Gay Marriage in Connecticut and Rhode Island; Saugus Gay Couple; Atkins Study; Fahrenheit 9/11 at Cannes; Iron Curtain Classical

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Monday, May 17, 2004

Gay Couples Free to Wed; Reconsidering Brown v. Board; Bomb Kills Iraq Council Chief; Israel Expected to Launch Gaza Offensive; Marriage Quest Denied; Tying the Knot

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Friday, May 14, 2004

U.S. Releases 300 Abu Ghraib Detainees; The Rise of Zarqawi; Brown v. Board of Education; Judge Robert Carter; Presidential Campaign in the Back Seat; Mexican UFOs; Kevin Kline; Coffee and Cigarettes

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Abu Ghraib Image Debate; Gandhi-Led Opposition Wins India Election; Sudanese Government Accused of Ethnic Cleansing; Nicholas Berg; Cicadas; Pentagon’s New Map; Letters 5/13/2004; Fountains of Wayne

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Al Sadr Urges Resistance; Soldiers to Torturers; Abu Ghraib Scandal Backlash; 9,000 Prisoners; Oil Prices; Olympic Security; How to Be President; Robert Brustein

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Senate Hears Testimony on Abu Ghraib; The Colossus of American Empire; A Conversation with Nick Berg’s Father; Union Will Deny Gays Benefits; Reopening the Murder Trial of Emmett Till; How to Be President; Pop’s Punk Influence

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Monday, May 10, 2004

Bush Visits Pentagon, Backing Rumsfeld; Abu Ghraib Outrage Continues as New Photos Released; Chechen President Buried; Prisons and Guards: the Psychology of Control; Families Await Return, and a Soldier’s Story; Un-Memorializing King; Sun Never Sets on Tupperware

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Friday, May 7, 2004

Rumsfeld Faces Congress, Apologizes to Iraqi Prisoners

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Thursday, May 6, 2004

White House Seeks Additional $25 Billion for Wars; Rumsfeld Faces Trouble Over Prison Abuses; Arabs React to Bush Appearance; Greenspan Warns on Deficit; King Abdullah Visits Washington; Diplomatic Statement to President Bush; Letters 05/06/2004; Prince George County to Evict Bonnie Bick; Vienna Tang

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Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Bush Meets Arab Media Over Prison Scandal; Inside Abu Ghraib; Torture; Kerry Book; Neoconservative Stance on Iraq; Medicaid and States; Disney Blocks Michael Moore Film; Storefront Artists Project

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Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Prison Abuse, Private Contractors; Sasser Worm; Ovarian Cancer; Al Sabah Newspaper; Presidential Election Small Donors; Western Drought; Super Size Me

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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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