2005 May | Here & Now

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Supreme Courts Overturns Andersen Conviction; College Loans; Graduates and the Job Market; School Program Cut; Spit Samples; New Book About Golfing Legend

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Monday, May 30, 2005

Operations in Iraq; War Films; Holliston Memorials; Tillman’s Death; Age and Health Care; Charles Russell Lowell

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Friday, May 27, 2005

Connecticut Photographer Arrested in Darfur; French EU Vote Nears; President’s Council Touts Stem Cell Proposal; Race Car Driver Danica Patrick; Dancer Touches on Themes of 9/11, Muslim Identity

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Bush Meets Abbas; Arming Space – Part 2; Stern Report on Death of Snelgrove; Indi 500; Charges against Pantano Dropped; Foreign Babes in Beijing

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

The President and Congress; Arming Space; The Orthodox Church in the Middle East; Beast in the Garden; Tofu for a Western Taste

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Senate Agreement; Brand Hillary Clinton; Mexico Reacts to Vatican Decision; Defense of “America” Editor; Killed by Transplants; Festival of International Literature

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Washington Report; Mortgage System Changes; School Lunches; Immigrant Arrested for Trespassing; Mendelssohn Discoveries

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Friday, May 20, 2005

Saddam Photos, Iraq Memo Spark Iraq Controversy; Cell Phones: More for Just Talking; Soldiers’ Brain Injuries; Violent Words in Debate; Rap Music

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

U.S. Operations in Iraq; Washington D.C. Update; Tourism in Mexico; Annika Sorenstam; Pink Martini

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Filibuster Fight; CPB, PBS and NPR; Corn Farmers in Mexico; Osteoporosis; The International Association of Food Professionals

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Gay Marriage; Saddam’s Defense; Pharmaceutical Companies and Mexico; Letters; Life Size Barbie

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Washington Roundtable; Retirement Accounts; The Roads of Mexico; Trade and China; Mary McBride

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Friday, May 13, 2005

U.S. Operations in Iraq; Sudan; Base Closings; Star Wars; Conductor Allen Lannom Lays Down Baton

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Bolton Hearings; Children of Inmates; CAFTA; Journal Studies; Highway Ministers

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

United Airlines Pensions; Dream Act; Saudi Arabia; Powerball; Angelique Kidjo

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Cyber Attacks; Jane Fonda; Spokane Mayor; New York Times; August Wilson

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Monday, May 9, 2005

Bush and Putin Mark Allied WWII Victory; Putin’s Russia; Real ID; Putting a Name to “Precious Doe”; Not Your Gandfather’s Banjo Player

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Friday, May 6, 2005

GM and Ford’s Credit Ratings; Harry Blackmun; Finding Al-Libi; Kenya’s First Lady; Emily; Inspiration for Mothers

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Thursday, May 5, 2005

Teaching Evolution; Judicial Nominees; Minor Explosions in New York; Connolly Faces New Charges; Kentucky Derby Preview; TV Movie: Our Fathers

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Pat Tillman Report; Sustainable Farming; Florida Sex Offender Law; Letters; Back Bay Chorale

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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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