Friday, September 30, 2005

Judith Miller Freed; GOP’s Woes; Rebuilding New Orleans; The Home Stretch; “Proof” Takes Celluloid Leap

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

The Delay Indictment; The Shape of the U.S. Supreme Court; Al Qaeda Nightly News; Hughes on Listening Tour; Gone With the Wind…and Storm Surge; Gogol Bordello

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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Hurricane Hearings; Author Kayla Williams on Serving in Iraq; Cutting Through the Housing Haze; We’ve Got Mail; The Curious Origins of Curious George

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Activist on Rita’s Environmental Fallout; Former FEMA Head Defends Performance; An Oil Industry Perspective; Former Administration Official Charged; Red Sox Fever Drives Down ER Visits; Author Sue Monk Kidd

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Monday, September 26, 2005

Returning After Rita; Hold the Gas, Please; Court Convicts 9/11 Suspects; Lynch Promotes Transcendental Meditation; Christopher Dickey on Suicide Terrorism; Film Director Wants to Bring Meditation to Schools; No Direction Home

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Friday, September 23, 2005

Port Arthur Girds for Rita; Rita’s Economic Impact; Iraq Update; Poet Refuses White House Invitation; Questionable Contracts; The Hunt for Red October; The Answers to Life’s Great Questions

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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Preparing for Rita; Is there a Republicans War on Science?; Rita Barrels Towards Texas; Hard lessons of Katrina; The Senate Vote on Roberts; The Ansel Adams We Don’t Know

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Gulf Braces for Rita; The Politics of Reconstruction; Genius Grant Winner Sue Goldie; Genius of the Sea; The Cool Seu Jorge

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

New Orleans Returnees Now Leaving; Katrina’s Missing Children; North Korea Nuke Deal; Facing the Doctor; A Conversation with Ross McElwee

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Monday, September 19, 2005

Reopening New Orleans; Elections in Afghanistan; The Road to Democracy?; Displaced Students and Segregation; Katrina’s Toil on the Arts; An Island Home

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Friday, September 16, 2005

Political Analysis: Bush and Katrina; Insurers Sued over Katrina Coverage; Official: Money for Garage Should not go to Katrina Relief; The WNBA Finals; The Secret New York

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Bush To Address Nation From New Orleans; The Katrina Migration; Post Chronicles Convention Center Chaos; Parking Not a Priority for this Montana Citizen; Deciphering the Khipus

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Constitution Finalized Amidst Deadly Explosion; Reform, Poverty Debated at U.N. Summit; Health Care Facilities Investigated Following Storm Deaths; Robert Hearings Update; Glimmer of Hope; “When the Emperor Was Divine”

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Judge Roberts, Your Answer Is?; Roberts Faces Senate; Judge Roberts, Your Answer Is?; Photographing the Dead; FEMA After Brown; Internet Gets a Makeover; A Perspective on Taiwain; Jazz Master Bill Evans

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Monday, September 12, 2005

Senate Starts Roberts’ Hearings; “Juba” the Sniper; Katrina Update; Ring Full of Memories; Katrina Takes Toll on Children; Help for Young Survivors

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Friday, September 9, 2005

Who is Michael Brown?; Magazine Questions FEMA Chief’s Resume; Business Lessons; Katrina Pets; We’ve Got Mail; Filming 9/11

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Thursday, September 8, 2005

Katrina Wreaks Environmental Havoc; Remembering Ahmad; Hands on Worldwide; Upset at the Open; Sonny Rollins

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Wednesday, September 7, 2005

Katrina’s Economic Impact; Attempting Rescue Amidst Destruction; Students Lend a Hand; The Post-Rehnquist Supreme Court; Displaced Students; Capturing Katrina

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Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Katrina Inquiry; China Correspondent; Mississippi Damage; Evacuees Coming to Cape Cod; Opening Her Door to a Stranger; Shelter

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Monday, September 5, 2005

Bush Names Roberts for Chief Justice; Labor Day and WalMart; Stern on WalMart; News from New Orleans; Katrina Fallout; The Dream of Retiring

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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