2007 January | Here & Now

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Alleged Terrror Plot Foiled; Backstabbing and the Bottom Line; Media Critic Sounds Off; Using MySpace to Get His Space; The Tony Awards for the College Set

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Global Warming Topic of Hearings; Unrest in Lebanon and the Middle East; Ailing Pfizer; Tiddlywinks, Anyone?; The Villa Air Bel

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Monday, January 29, 2007

“Soldiers of Heaven”; Civilians in Iraq; The Week Ahead; Kentucky Derby Winner Euthanized; Postcard from Teotihuacan; “Salumi”

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Iraq Update; A Look Back at Tet; Libby Trial Update; Pardon Sought in Border Shooting Case; Best Concerts Ever

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Suspect Arraigned 43 Years After Crime; Alexandra Pelosi’s Road Trip; Charges Possible in Induced Abortion Case; Sports Update; Older Athletes

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Analysis: State of the Union; Carter at Brandeis; Survey: No Conflict between Islam and Democracy; Bernardo Monk

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Ahead Of The State Of The Union Address; The People’s State Of The Union; Lt. Gen. Petraeus’s Testimony; Passport Required For Air Travellers; Academy Award Nominations; Music Sharing Program For Musicians

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Monday, January 22, 2007

CEOs Urge Bush to Regulate Greenhouse Gases; Presidential Hopefuls; Saudi Arabia and Egypt; Super Bowl XLI; “Monique and the Mango Rains”

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Democracy Worker Killed in Iraq; Divide Iraq in Two?; Senate’s Candy Drawer; We Hear From You; Football Fever; Oscar Nomination Predictions

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Committee Grills Gonzalez; Nursing Shortage; Hill Eyes Ending Breaks For Big Oil; Democratic Bachelor Pad; The Finnish Line; Art Buchwald

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Congress Debates Bush’s Increase of Troops; Why Didn’t Hornbeck Escape?; Unlikely Allies; Wal-Mart to Promote Fluorescent Light Bulbs; The Kirov Ballet

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Obama Closer to White House Bid; Iraqi Refugees; Libby Trial; Primitive Love; The Gift of Music

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Monday, January 15, 2007

Condoleezza Rice in the Mideast; U.S. Raids Against Iran; Washington State Prison Population Study; “Alive in Baghdad”; New Hampshire’s “View Tax”; “Project Step”

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Friday, January 12, 2007

Defense Secretary Supports Bush’s Plan; “Letters from Iwo Jima”; Prosecutors Press Charges in Hewlett-Packard Case; Beckham Signs with L.A. Galaxy; Bradley Walker

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Reaction to Bush’s Iraq Speech; A Woman for Harvard; Sports Update; Viva Las Vegas!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Congress and the “Surge”; Experts Paint Grim Picture of Iraq; Iraq Challenges; Drug Prices; Optical Illusions; Actress Kate Burton

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

U.S. Strikes Somalia Targets; The Technology of the Future; Two Years Later; Funding & Findings; Carpenter Poets

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Monday, January 8, 2007

Stem Cells Found in Amniotic Fluid; Will Congress Side With Bush?; Mark McGwire; Inside the Ring; “Get Your War On”

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Friday, January 5, 2007

Bush Plans to Increase Troops; Bush to Name New Military Command; Study Links Post-Traumatic Stress and Heart Disease; Warm Weather Forces Ice Fishing Contest to Cancel; Tribute to the Writer Donald Murray; Violinist Joshua Bell

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

Congress Eyes Reforms; America’s Birth Certificate; Curing Burnout in the Medical Profession; Sports Update; The Musical Mark Morris

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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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