2006 August | Here & Now

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Bush’s Iraq; The Lost Boys of Polygamy; Unrest in Pakistan; Sports Buzz; Delicioso! Mexican Cuisine at its Best

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Pendleton Eight Hearing; Back to School in the Big Easy; Diary of Rehab; Flat Dads; Robin Cook

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Iraq Violence; Katrina, One Year Later; Louisiana Turns Republican; Salt Lake City; Polygamist Arrest; New Orleans Writer

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Tropical Storm Ernesto; FEMA since Katrina; Using Drugs for Weight Loss; New Orleans Family Settles in MA; Dimanche a Bamako

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Friday, August 25, 2006

False Alarms in Aviation; Homework and Learning; Impeaching the President; Listener Letters; Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Over the Counter for Morning-After; The Power and the Glory; Eliminating Middle School?; Pluto Demoted; Faces of Shakespeare

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Marine Callback; Marine’s POV; Hezbollah; Senate Race; Meningitis Vaccine; Pollini

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Iran Says it is Ready to Negotiate; Political Fallout in Israel; Doping in the Nation; Face Dances; A Big Fish Story

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Bush Press Conference; Internet and Child Pornography; Lieberman under Fire; Why is the Sky Blue?; Chopin Nocturnes; “Babylon by Bus”

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Friday, August 18, 2006

Security Moms, Court Ruling on Wiretapping; Fixing FEMA; Class and Health; Economic Check-in; Terence Blanchard and “Requiem”

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Bush Pledges to Revise US Pension System; Treating AIDS; Rebuilding Lebanon; This Week In Sports; “The Death of Kevin Carter”

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Passenger Disturbance Causes Emergency Landing; Terror Suspects to Remain Custody?; Passenger Profiling; 9/11 Emergency Calls Made Public; Planets: Pluto Plus Three; Listener Letters; How Americans do Funerals

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Investigation Update; A Future Shaped by Sunni – Shia Clash; Parental Consent for Abortion; The Jill Carroll Story; Bush Meets with Security Officials; “The Maine Squeeze”

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Sharon’s Condition Worsens; “Life in Hell: A Baghdad Diary”; Investigation in Britain Continues; Revised Air Travel Restrictions; “The Symphonic Jethro Tull”

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Pakistan: Terrorists Train with Al-Qaeda; Missing Exchange Students Found; Neither Bird, Nor Plane… It’s a Meteor!; “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?”

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Traveling Today; An Attack of Unimaginable Scale; A Global War on Terror; State of Airline Security; Treating Lung Cancer; “Coronado”

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Carroll’s Kidnappers Arrested; Cuba: Another Turning Point; Lieberman Loses, What Now?; You’re on Here & Now; “World Trade Center” Hits the Big Screen

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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Boston Police Corruption Case; The Middle East According to Juan Cole; Prudhoe Bay Pipeline; Stafford, Texas Houses of Worship; John Pizzarelli

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Monday, August 7, 2006

Alaskan Oil Field Shut Down; “Campus Confidential”; Middle East Update; Jean Baker Miller; Art Buchwald, Still Smiling

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Friday, August 4, 2006

Pro-Hezbollah Shiites Rally in Baghdad; Hezbollah Fundraising on U.S. Soil; Mel Mania; One Hundred Years of Voice; One Hundred Years of Cool; “The Brambles”

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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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