Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Haditha Massacre Update; A Conversation with Ted Kennedy; Living with Aids 25 Years After; Health Supplements; Happy Birthday Miles Davis

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Haditha Massacre; Supreme Court Rules Against Internal Whistleblowers; Reporting in Baghdad; Employee Immigration Status; Feature Fatigue; “Last Bite: A Novel of Culinary Romance”

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Monday, May 29, 2006

Almost 5,00 Dead in Indonesian Quake; Young Courage; Hallowed Ground?; Springsteen and Seeger; War Dead

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Haditha Attack; Drunken Girlhood; Globalization and the Polish Workforce; U.N. – Global Parliament?; Duke Women’s Lacrosse; Attempt to Heal a Vietnam War Wound

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Washington Update; Housing Bubble; Housing Market; Enron Verdict; Sports Highlights; “Specimen Days”

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Most Recent Osama Bin Laden Tape; Corruption Scandals and Congressional Races; Greenland’s Melting Ice; American Idol; Cuisine of New Orleans

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Visits Washington; Stolen Data; The Coming Hurricane Season; Ferber Philosophy on Babies and Sleep; “Chicks” Not Ready to Make Nice

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Rice Addresses Boston College Graduating Class; Journalist on Civil War in Iraq; Prosecuting Journalists; Barbaro out of Surgery; Graduating Seniors

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Violence Flares Up in Afghanistan; English Language Debate; Mayor Takes Stand over Standardized Tests; Russian Chorus

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Hayden Hearings; Sheriff Goes After Undocumented Workers; Solidarity Through Loss; 712 and Counting…; DaVinci Code Controversy

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Domestic Surveillance Briefing; Letters to Sam; Feeble Axis?; Jobs for Grads; Author Lois Lowry

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The Border Plan; New Treatment for Alchoholics; From Guantanamo to Legal Limbo; Forbes: Castro Worth $900 Million; Iraq TV

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Monday, May 15, 2006

Bush Immigration Address; Civilian Surveillance; Northern Ireland Update; Bay State Flooding; Part Asian

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Friday, May 12, 2006

Washington Wrap-Up; Julia Alvarez; Medicare D; Commencement Flap; Documenting the “Smaller Majority” of Life on Earth

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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Report: Spy Agency Assembling Phone Call Database; Russia on the Rise; Air Travel Woes; Tree Poetry; Augusten Burroughs

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Fed Expected to Hike Rate; Bad Cruise; Brandeis Pulls Palestinian Art; The Bones of Geronimo; Eclectic Beats and Pieces

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Busy Day at the United Nations; The Higher Ed Gap; How Deaf is Deaf?; Listener Letters; Museum Raves

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Monday, May 8, 2006

Military Man Tapped for CIA; Ortega’s Political Resurrection; Flu Case Study; Gang Violence Claims Another Son; “Which Brings Me to You”

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Friday, May 5, 2006

Al Qaeda: Memo and New Plan; Dead Interest; Intelligence on Protestors; Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car; “Black Maestro”

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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Life for Moussaoui; The Oil Addiction; Selling Sex in Germany; Remembering the Babe; Musical Keyboards

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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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