Friday, March 31, 2006

Caught on Tape?; Ignoring the White House; Definitions and the Death Penalty; As College Tuition Increases…; A New Kind of Sporting Event; Rumors Make a Movie

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Jill Carroll Freed; Trying to Make it North; Bad Chemical; The Final Four Times Two; Amy Irving and Elizabeth Bishop

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Immigration Debate Continued…; Afghanistan: The Forgotten War; Academic Paper on Israel Provokes Firestorm; Jazz-art-signs; Jose Gonzalez

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

The Card Resignation; Immigration Reform; Michael Isikoff on Scalia, GITMO; Your Turn; Jazz’s Old Guard with New Twists; Israelis Go to the Polls

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Monday, March 27, 2006

Guest Workers; The Plight of Young Black Men; Hard-line Government in Israel?; College Basketball: David and Goliath; The Bobbed Haired Bandit

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Friday, March 24, 2006

American Archbishops; Behind Closed Doors; Calling All Drug Dealers; Funeral Protests; A Genetic Research Dance

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Activists Freed in Iraq; Death Row Doctors; This Family’s Values; Debating Fluoride; Actor Aaron Eckhart

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

GM’s Big Union Buyout; Kevin Phillips; Outrage over Belarus Election; March Madness Continues; Eve Ensler’s “Good Body”

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The Bush Press Conference; Ocean at Risk; Democrats Smell Opportunity; Cat Story; Progressive Afropop

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Bush and Public Opinion; A Chat with Nesreen Barwari; Hidden Photographs; An Impeachment Attempt; The First Day of Spring

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Abbas Urged to Resign; Tony Kushner’s “Unpayable Debt”; A General’s Strategy on Disarming Iran; A Kennedy’s Journey Home

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

The National Security Strategy; Milosevic’s Legacy; Target Iran; March Madness; Musicians on Mark Morris

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Spinning the War?; Iraq Update; Medication Linked to Sleep Walking; Physician Assisted Suicide; Robert Towne

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Jericho Prison Raid; Garry Wills; “Unsales Team”; Google on Trial; Stacy London

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Iraq Invasion Anniversary; Wrongful Birth; Enron Trial Resumes; Looking Back: Vietnam and Iraq; Musical Ambassador; Tony Soprano Dead?

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Friday, March 10, 2006

Port Security; Children’s Blizzard; The Week in Review; Crime Story; Maine Shrimp

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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Dubai, Iran and Ports; On Guard?; GOP Gathering; Identification Day; Mafia Myths and Reality

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Iran and Nukes; “The Baby Business”; Anti-Semitism in France; Bush on Trial; Trading Races

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

South Dakota’s Abortion Ban; “Enrique’s Journey”; Study Supports MS Drug Withdrawn from Market; Driver at UNC Says He Wanted to “Punish” U.S.; Grooving with James Hunter

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Monday, March 6, 2006

Moussaoui Sentencing Begins Today; Keeping in Touch with the Homefront; High Court Upholds Military Recruiting Law; Ma Bell Makes a Comeback; Crashing the Oscars; The Story of a Violin

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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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