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Friday, October 29, 2004

TV Footage from Iraq Shows Explosives in Place; Final Days to Convince Voters; Seymour Hersh: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib; August Wilson on Broadway: Phylicia Rashad; Radio Election of 1924

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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Sox Sweep Series; Middle East Peace and the Election; Voter Registration Challenges in the Buckeye State; Sox Shed Shadow of Curse; Fan Celebrations

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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Taking the War on the Campaign Trail; How the Undecided Decide; Swing States; Environment and Kerry’s Record; Red Sox, Strong on Momentum, Fans Hopeful

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Gaza Vote in Israel’s Parliament; Political Energy; Keeping it Green; Presidential Issues: The Environment; Mo Rocca

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Monday, October 25, 2004

Pursuing the Black Vote; Genes, Environment, and Breast Cancer; Iraq and the American Elections; Boston Mosque Criticized for Remarks; Stritch of the Imagination

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Friday, October 22, 2004

Campaign Check-In; Voter Registration Fraud; Absentee Ballots; Listener Letters; Gay Egyptian; Death of a Sox Fan; I. M. Pei

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Thursday, October 21, 2004

Israel Votes on Gaza; Baseball; EU Security; Lenny Bruce

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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Politics and Fear of Flu; Swing Through Undecided New Hampshire; Probe into Illegal Insurance Actions; Routing for a Coastal Biking Trail; On the Wing

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Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Care International Director Kidnapped in Iraq; Retired Mass. Cop Trains Police in Iraq; Battling in the Swing States; Baseball Playoffs Pit Rivals; Marx on Broadway

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Monday, October 18, 2004

When Soldiers Refuse Service; Calling the Election; Encouraging Campus Voting; Flu Vaccine Shortage; Turkey, Kurds, and the E.U.; Russia’s Boshoi Ballet is Back in America

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Friday, October 15, 2004

Voter Registrations; Equal Time; Precious; British Vote Appeal; August Wilson

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Bush and Kerry Spar Over Health Care; Deserters; Dead Squirrels; Lost Prince

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Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Bush, Kerry Seek Boost From Final Debate; Election and Taxes; Getting the Swing; Iowa and New Hampshire; Saudi Women Banned from Vote; Veronica Jochum Plays Osvaldo Golijov

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

U.S. Steps Up Attacks on Iraq Insurgents; Knesset Rebukes Sharon over Gaza; A Conversation with Desmond Tutu; Soros on Bush; October Baseball; Frontline Profiles Bush, Kerry

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Monday, October 11, 2004

Christopher Reeve and Stem Cell Research; Afghan Elections; Nursing Home Staffing Problems; Ralph Nader; Slang

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Friday, October 8, 2004

Dozens Killed in Resort Blasts in Egypt; Political Funny Business; Baseball; Back to Iran; The Madam

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Thursday, October 7, 2004

U.S. Reports Iraq Did Not Have WMDs; Science and the Candidates; Electronic Medical Records and Privacy; Roots in Iran; Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake”

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Mount St. Helens Steams; Dick Cheney and John Edwards Clash; European Immigration; Roots in Iran; Tying the Knot; Documenting Gay Marriage

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Preparing for the Vice Presidential Debate; Flu Worries; Swing States; Back to Iran; Women’s Issues and Election 2004

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Monday, October 4, 2004

Voter Registration; Afghan Elections Approach; Harlem Dance Theater Cancels Season; Iran Journal; 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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