2005 October | Here & Now

Monday, October 31, 2005

Samuel Alito’s Nomination; The Democrats React; Sex Offenders Get Halloween Curfew; Tutus and Tiaras; Orchestra Brings Phantom to Life

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Friday, October 28, 2005

The Plame Indictments; Sex Offenders Limited on Halloween; Big Money in Big Oil; Artists in Exile

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Miers Withdrawal; Who’s Next?; Indefinitely Detained; Sweep Home Chicago; Science of Star Wars

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Bombing in Israel Kills Five; Iraq Death Toll Reaches 2,000; Quilts Honor the Fallen; Fuel: Back To Basics; Interview with a Space Tourist; Jazz Treasures

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Cheney’s Role; Lewis Libby; The FedEx Economy; Quiet Strength; The Space Tourist; Rooftop With a View

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Monday, October 24, 2005

Reporters Under Fire; Hostage Experience; Hurricane Wilma; Aging Concerns; Capote; An Actor’s Challenge in Capote

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Friday, October 21, 2005

Political Round-up: Dark Days for Republicans; Divided Minds; Who is Pat Fitzgerald?; Bill Littlefield’s World Series Preview; North Country

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Fighting Breast Cancer; Abbas in Washington; Driver Profiling; Natural Gas Prices on the Rise; Chris Elliott

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Now Here Comes Wilma; Hussein on Trial; Reporter Vanishes in Iraq; In the Shadow of Saddam; Workers Take a Hit; Finding Fall Foliage; Artists Without Borders

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Homeless in the Himalayas; Plame Indictments; Billing the Wounded; Evacuations in Taunton; Love Your Body

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Monday, October 17, 2005

Valerie Plame Affair; The Iraq Vote; Earthquake Aftermath; Supreme Court Check-in; An Interview with Cynthia Lennon

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Friday, October 14, 2005

The GOP’s “Perfect Storm”; Avian Flu Arrives in Europe; LA Archdiocese Releases Files on Priests’ Abuse; Remembering Cummings; A Dido and Aeneas for the 21st Century

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Filing for Broke; At Homes in Iraq; Expert Training; Strike Three You’re Safe; Best of Science Writing

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Syria Says Interior Minister Commits Suicide; Preventing SIDS; Quake Aid; Interview With Dr. Leon Kass; Homework is Garbage; Food Fiascos

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Gulf Revival; Killings at Tal Afar Market; Liberians Line Up; Mr. Mardi Gras; Joyce Maynard

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Monday, October 10, 2005

Quake in Pakistan; 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus; Angel Island: American Dreams Shattered; Ig Nobel Awards; Michael Penn

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Friday, October 7, 2005

Nuclear Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Church at a Crossroads; President Asks Nation to Conserve; The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul; Memoir Writing’s Rough Edges

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Thursday, October 6, 2005

President Defends Iraq Policy; Post-Aristide Haiti; Iraqi Journalists Under Fire; White 2, Red 0; DJ Mash

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Conservatives Divided over Miers; Author Nathaniel Fick; New Orleans Economic Woes; New Labor Federation Inagurated; Chef Jacques Pepin

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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Presidential Press Conference; Tracking the Flu; Militant Islam in Southeast Asia; Intelligent Design Goes to Court; Louise Erdrich

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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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