2006 February | Here & Now

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Poll: U.S. Troops Want Pullout; Mardi Gras Kings and Queens; High Court Rules Against Abortion Clinic; Catholic Church and Gay Adoptions; Senate NSA Hearings; The Black Indians of Mardi Gras

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Party Controversy; Foreign Ownership in U.S.; No Longer $60 a Barrel; Fat Tuesday Expectations; Hockney’s Personal Portraits

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Ohio Terror Case; Gail Caldwell: A Book Critic with a Pulitzer and a Memoir; Mosque Bombing Begets More Violence; Ravens Under House Arrest; Conductor takes on Arnold Schoenberg

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Unrest in Iraq; Battle Over Gay Adoption; Port Security; Littlefield’s Olympics; Beyond Coincidence

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Samarra Shiite Shrine Bombing; Anti-Americanism in Turkey; Harvard President Resigns; Legality of Lethal Injections in California; Banana Cultures

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Port Security; Life after the Troubles; Olympics Update; Avian Flu; The Grace Lee Project

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Monday, February 20, 2006

Hamas; Lincoln’s Melancholy; Assisted Living; Think Less, Decide More; Mispronounced words

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Friday, February 17, 2006

This Week in the White House; Shaping the Election Campaign; Study: Ice Sheets Melting Faster than Predicted; The Story of Yao Ming; “Carnaval” in Boston

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Iraq Update; FDA Advisory on ADD Drugs; Green Olympics; Injury Prone Olympics; African-America Women and the Mommy Debate

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Cheney on the Firing Line; Elder Care; Haiti’s Preval Calls for Ballot Review; Snow Futures; Dirty Rap

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

NY Times: U.S. and Israel Seek Hamas Ouster; The Internally Displaced; Protecting Whistleblowers; Your Turn; Love and Marriage

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Monday, February 13, 2006

FEMA announces Katrina Reforms; Evangelicals and Global Warming; Cheney’s Hunting Partner “Stable”; Enron: Defense Has Unusual Argument; Happily Ever After; Valentine Movie Suggestions in “The X-List”

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Friday, February 10, 2006

Brown: Administration Knew Levees Breached; Times Reporter on NSA Spying; U.S. Olympic Troubles; Reaction to Katrina Hearings; Marley Remembered

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Thursday, February 9, 2006

Bush: U.S. Foiled Terror Plot; GOP House Chair Calls for NSA Review; Debating the Roots of Terrorism; Coal and Gas; The Curious Origins of Curious George

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006

The Sound and Fury over Danish Cartoons; Study: Low-Fat Diets Don’t Reduce Cancer, Heart Risks; Marines Killed in Iraq; Selective Abortions in India; Jay McInerney’s Good Life

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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

The Bush Budget; Debating War Strategy; Genetic Testing: Ethics and Issues; What is Hip Today?; Grammy Legend?

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Monday, February 6, 2006

Senate NSA Hearings; NSA Surveillance Through History; “Palace Revolt”; Memorable Superbowl Ads; Haitian Americans React to Elections; “What Good are the Arts?”

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Friday, February 3, 2006

The Long War; Critical Care Air; Mohammed Cartoons Spark Fury; The Hype and the Glory; City Councilor Martha Reeves

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Thursday, February 2, 2006

House Leadership and Lobbying Reform; Intellectuals and the Flag; Sisters’ Struggle with Meth; Violence Threatens Sudan Peace Talks; Your Turn; Haggis and Poety

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

State of the Union Recap; Health Savings Accounts; Decades-Old Art Heist Solved; Partisan Thinking: More Emotion than Logic; Homeland Insecurity; Literary Border Crossings

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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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