Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Rove Effect; Musical Chairs; Hubble, Hubble, Toil and Trouble; A Divided Church; Boston Costume’s last Halloween; Hellish Nell

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Missing Weapons in Iraq; Economic Concerns; Laura Bush Helps Republican Candidates; To Be Determined; Nightmare: Face Your Fear; Marathon Man

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Friday, October 27, 2006

California Fire; Ballot Initiatives and Referenda; Hungarian Revolution; World Series Update; Letters; Kurt Cobain Tops Forbes List; Halsey Burgund’s Booth

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Bush Signs Secure Fence Act; Appeals for War’s End; Older Recruits for Iraq; Spreading the Wealth; Family of a Fallen Marine; Conversation with a Cabbie

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Bush Meets the Press; Key States for Democrats; Rush, Michael and Campaign Ads; A Conversation with Wangari Maathai; Cartoon Rejects; The Refugee All Stars

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Timeline; Profile: Nancy Pelosi; Setback to Darfur Peace Process; Feeding the Army; Madhur Jaffrey Looks Back

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Rethinking Iraq; Romney Seeks Mormon Support; Arizona Politics; Radio for All in Africa; “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple”

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Friday, October 20, 2006

Iraq War Plans; “The One Percent Doctrine”; Congressional Price Tag; Schoolyard Game Banned; Dragonfly Soars

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Paper Names Priest Who Abused Foley; Russia’s Walter Cronkite; Tracking MySpace Predators; Sports Rundown; Running with Scissors

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Deadly Month in Iraq; Political Maneuvers; Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori; Can You Tell the Difference Between a Sunni and a Shiite?; Tribute to Jazz

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Former FDA Chief Pleads Guilty; Outsourcing Patients; A Regime on the Brink?; Entrepreneur; Arthur Miller Remembered

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Who Will Take a Seat?; When the War Hits Home; Officials Respond To Increasing Murder Rate; Sick of Catching a Cold?; “Driving Lessons”

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Friday, October 13, 2006

Report from the United Nations; Democratic Outlook for 2008; Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus; President Bush: A Fashion Critic?; Chocolate and Fluff Volcano; Community of Vloggers

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Troops in Iraq for Four More Years; Exporting Faith; Election Profile: North Carolina; Bill Littlefield’s Sports Beat; “Deliver Us From Evil”

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Study: Iraq Death Toll at 655,000; Single-Sex Public Schools; An Uphill Struggle; Google and YouTube: A Perfect Match?; Pop Music Rocks On

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Raising the Stakes; Closeted on the Hill; Literacy Program Marred by Mismanagement; 299,999,999; “The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl”

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Monday, October 9, 2006

North Korea; China’s Christopher Columbus; Nuclear Proliferation; Skating Comeback; Feeding the Modern American Family

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Friday, October 6, 2006

North Carolina Fire; The Price is Wrong; Signing Away; The Mexican-American Perspective; Brazilian Girls All Over the Globe

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Ethics Committee Meets; Frank Rich; Amish in Mourning; Sports Update; “Reds” Revisited

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Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Foley Scandal Taking Toil on GOP; Asia News Update; Invisible Border; A Former Page’s Perspective; A Walk in Walden Woods

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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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