2006 January | Here & Now
State of the Union Preview; Political Snapshot; State of the Union Review; Exxon’s Profit Windfall; Remembering Coretta Scott King; Painting Greenspan; Oscar Time a Real Treat; Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy
more »Rice: No Aid to Hamas; Iran and the U.N.; Massachusetts Murder Mystery; Peace Talks in Sudan; Poetry on Paper; Playwright Wendy Wasserstein Dies
more »DC Wrap; Vikram Seth’s Storied Lives; Israelis React to Hamas Win; Don’t Lie to Oprah; Obsessive Drawing
more »Hamas Election Victory; Reaction to Hamas Victory: One; Reaction to Hamas Victory: Two; Google Taking Heat; Australian Open; Musical Makeovers
more »Palestinians Go to the Polls; Debating Survelliance; What Would Washington Do?; Wages of Fear; No Longer Being Served; High Tech Bots Play Ancient Tune
more »Alito Heading Towards Confirmation; Healthcare Reform Republican Style; Selective Abortions in India; Secret Prisons in Europe; The Most Depressing Day; To Be or Not to Be?
more »Ford Cutting 30,000 Jobs; Hamas Poised for Big Showing; Underground Adoption: Part Two; Makeover for an American Icon; Fisher Poets
more »Attacks Kill 15 in Iraq; A Most Dangerous Profession; Underground Adoption; Your Turn; Wilde Opera
more »Purported Bin Laden Tape Aired; Efforts Continue to Free Reporter; Ha’aretz Columnist on Ariel Sharon; Vt. Debates Assisted Suicide; NFL Update; Of Brides, Politics and Comedy
more »High Court Considers NH Abortion Law; Dueling Lobbying Reforms; The Cost of War; Abducted Reporter Faces Death Threat; Surfing on a Treadmill; January is Now TV’s Hot Season
more »Mayor: NOLA will be “Chocolate City”; Problems with Medicare Drug Program; What about the Perks?; Catching up with Donovan
more »Iraq Update; Worst Hard Times; Liberia’s First Woman President; Harlequin Frogs Becoming Extinct; Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
more »State Forces Wal-Mart to Spend More on Healthcare; Alito Hearings Day Five; Footprints and Levees; Essay: A Mother’s Passing; From the Blogosphere to the Bookstore
more »Alito Hearings: Day Four; The Emerging Diabetes Health Crisis; Diabetes Clinic Closed; MySpace Invaders; Bringing Down the House
more »Alito Hearings: Day Three; Rebuilding New Orleans; Endurance 101; Headphones and Hearing Loss; Biting Bed Bugs; Family Ties
more »Alito Hearings; Reporter Abducted in Iraq; Voluntary Drug Testing in Schools; The Dows Hits 11,000; Albert Brooks
more »Kennedy on Alito; Former CBO Head on the Federal Deficit; Iraq Update; Racist NOLA Housing Ads; Health and Grieving; “Country Boys”
more »Sharon Update; Debating Presidential Power; Miners Mourned; The Week in Sports; An Artist in Occupied Iraq
more »Sharon’s Stroke; Advances in Ovarian Cancer Treatment; Alito Hearings; Humor in the Court; Arthouse Theater Struggles to Survive
more »Twelve Coal Miners Dead in WV Mine; Lawmakers Probe Professors’ Politics; Fallout from Abramoff Plea; Mangoes and Curry Leaves
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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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“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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