2005 November | Here & Now

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Iraq; Bush Stands Firm on Iraq; General Disagreements; Oppenheimer’s Ruin; “Mosquito” Takes Aim at Teen Loiters; “Murderball”

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Gays in the Priesthood; Abortion and Alito; Financing Terrorism; “How to Survive a Robot Uprising”; “The New American Cooking”

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Saddam Trial Resumes with Testy Defendant in the Dock; A Look at the College Admissions Process; Holiday Shopping on the Internet; Drug Maker’s Headaches; Reach the Beach

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Friday, November 25, 2005

Black Friday Retail Sales; Soldiers Away from Home for Holidays; Don’t Know Much About Mythology; Remembering Football Legend George Best; The Protocols of Zion

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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Iraq Suicide Bombing; 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus; Thanksgiving at home and in Iraq; Donor fatigue in Detroit; Robin’s trip to Vermont

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Iraq Withdrawals; Katrina’s Children; Waste Alleged in Hurricance Recovery; NOLA Man’s Thanksgiving Quest; High Tech Solutions to Airport Security; Family Feud; Cooking Guru’s Tips for the Perfect Feast

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Venezuelan Oil for Mass. Residents; What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love; Bob Woodward’s Testimony; Opening Bethlehem; 50 Relatives Worse Than Yours; Rock Musician Chris Brokaw

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Monday, November 21, 2005

War of Words Over the War; Security and Reconstruction; GM to Slash Thousands of Jobs; We’ve Got Mail; Fado Singer Mariza

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Friday, November 18, 2005

Congressman, Administration Exchange Salvos Over Iraq; “Congagement” and China; Rare View Inside the Hermit Kingdom; We’ve Got Mail; Indoor Voices Please; What are Young People Thinking?; Film Festival Seeks to Inspire Young People to Action

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Questioning Samuel Alito; Google’ Big Book Plan; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Awaits Confirmation; Testing Baseball Players for Amphetamines; “Talk to the Hand”

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

New Study on Divorce and Children; U.S. Used White Phosphorus in Iraq; Conservation Medicine; Learning Languages; Tete-a-Tete With Hazel Rowley

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Senate Votes on Iraq Measures; The Story of Yao Ming; Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit; River Sing, a Public Gathering in Celebration of Autumn; John Kerry on Senate Vote

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Monday, November 14, 2005

GOP Seeks Turnaround; Congressman Charles Bass; Woman Implicated in Bombings in Jordan; Milosevic and War Crimes Law; What is “Emotional Intelligence?”; “Howl” and Ginsberg’s Legacy

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Friday, November 11, 2005

The GOP’s Woes; Perspectives on the French Riots; France Asks “Why?”; Nursing’s Catch-22; Soccer Title on the Line; This is Hallowed Ground?

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Bombings in Jordan; “Lincoln’s Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness”; Heart Disease and Women; Jerry Lee Lewis; Jerry Lewis

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Intelligent Design Approved in Kansas; Oil Executives Defend Profits; Chalabi is Back; Variations on a Theme; The Undercover Economist

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Election Day; Ahmad Chalabi; Abortion Battles; Hitchhiker Nation; Documenting the ‘Smaller Majority’ of Life on Earth

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Monday, November 7, 2005

The French Riots; Liberal Hawk on What Went Wrong; The Debate Over Health Savings Plans; Jaunt in the Joint; Dinner Hour Still a Pastime for this Family

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Friday, November 4, 2005

The Italian Connection; Andrew Weil on Healthy Aging; Senate Approves Budget Cuts; Stunning Tax Reversal in Colorado; Coming to a Theater Near You

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Thursday, November 3, 2005

Aid Cutbacks in Pakistan; Libby On Trial; Summit of the Americas; Sudoku; South Boston During the 1918 Flu

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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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