2005 January | Here & Now

Monday, January 31, 2005

The Elections in Iraq; What’s it Like to Vote?; The Election’s Regional Impact; Mother Talks of Election and Loss; Music of Fellini

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Big Merger; Getting out the Vote in Iraq; Union Label; Education Secretary Blasts PBS Cartoon; The House on Ash Street

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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Douglas Feith Out; Anti-semitism in Europe; Women Warriors; Your Turn; Survivor; Auschwitz Remembered

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Gitmo Detainess to Be Freed; Bush Press Conference; New Life for Peace Process?; God and the Inaugural; Another Storm Brewing; Maestro Conlon

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Shanley Trial Underway; State of the Death Penalty; Budget Estimates; Heart Study; Bad Opera

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Monday, January 24, 2005

Mideast Truce; The Battle Against Heart Disease; Horror Story Unravels; Bulls and Bears; Punk Nation

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Friday, January 21, 2005

International Reaction to Bush Address; Social Security Reform; Privatization Across the Pond; Once an Insurgent, Now a Pol; Inaugural Gossip; Flu Shot Shortage; Milton Babbitt

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Thursday, January 20, 2005

The 49th Presidential Inauguration; Analysis of the Speech; “Dirty Bomb” Tip Triggers Manhunt; Defense Policy in the Second Bush Term; More Analysis of the Speech

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Powell Says Goodbye; The Transformation of George and Laura Bush; The Aceh Rebels; Lab Workers Exposed to Deadly Bacterium; The Dancing Soldier

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Rice Confirmation Hearings; Women Candidates in Iraq; Lessons from the Past; Deep Freeze; Heavyweight Tunes

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Monday, January 17, 2005

Target Iran?; The Inaugural: The Money, the Pomp, the Politics; King Remembered; Football: Down to Four; Wal-Mart on the Offensive; Ken Burns on Jack Johnson

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Friday, January 14, 2005

U.S. Dampens Expectations as Iraq Election Near; Want Fries With That?; Insuring Property Loss; Aid Groups Walk Fine Line; Nation of Rebels

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Assassinations Inflame Iraq as Election Nears; Supreme Court Ruling Gives Judges More Power; Tired Interns; Trauma of Tsunami Survivors; MLB and NFL; Writing While Under the Influence

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Rains Wreaks Havoc, Tragedy in Golden State; Tsunami Leaves Mark on Animals, Environment; Truro DNA Case; WMD’s MIA; Danish Eye for the Ballot Box; School for Teen Moms; American Dolls and the Store that Sells Them

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Judge Picked for Homeland Security; Rebuilding Homes and Lives; Turbulent Air; Shelter for Life; Penn Speaks Out

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Sudan Peace Accord; Uganda AIDS Study Under Fire; Former Israeli Official on Palestian Elections; High and Low Points of Airline Industry; Parents Want Children of Gays Expelled

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Friday, January 7, 2005

General to Review Iraq Policy; Religious Views on Tsunami Catastrophe; Iran Update; What’s the Word?; “Syringa Tree”

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Thursday, January 6, 2005

The Gonzales Confirmation Hearings; Palestinian Elections; Congress Debates Election; Tribal Wisdom; Letters from Listeners; Epiphany Feast

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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Congress Starts New Session; Immigration Reform; Europe Remembers Tsunami Victims; Report from a Relief Camp; Immigrant Sri Lankan Starts Aid Effort; Funny Business

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005

A New Nightmare for Surviving Children; The Year in Culture; Security Tight for Inauguration; Violence Flares in Iraq; Cynthia Ozick

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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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