Monday, April 30, 2007

Court Refuses to Hear Gitmo Case; Author’s Stuggle With Memory Loss; New Mormon Documentary; Inflate and Twist

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Friday, April 27, 2007

Rockets Fired from Gaza; Sari Nuseibeh; Democratic Candidates Square Off; Comments From You; Renee Robinson

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

The War in Iraq in Washington; South Carolina Debate; Hearings on Mental Health of Soldiers; Sports with Bill Littlefield; New Orleans Jazz Fest

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Housing Market; Rendition Hearings; Boris Yeltsin Remembered; Earth-Like Planet Discovered; O’Donnell Departing “The View”; TBD; Food Writing with Molly O’Neill

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

House Hearings on Battlefield Information; A Conversation with Bob Woodruff; Wolfowitz Under Fire; NYC Mayor Touts Fee For Motorists; Remembering David Halberstam; David Halberstam; Remembering David Halberstam

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Monday, April 23, 2007

Iraqis Protest Wall; Former Russian President Dies; Tracking the Ocean’s Flotsam and Jetsam; Abortion Politics; Remembering a Young Life Cut Short; “The Moth” On Tour

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Nation Mourns Virginia Tech Victims; Sylvia Poggioli; Patient Safety and Giving Birth; Solving Urban Homicides; Your Letters; Filmmaker Uncovers Father’s Dark Past

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Gonzales Testifies; Conversation on Darfur; Gunman Sends Video and Writings to NBC; Background Check Failed to Red Flag Cho; Tracking Troubled Students; Remastered Stone

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Violence Flares In Iraq; Threat Assesment: How Schools React; Global Climate Change and the War on Terror; Globe’s Savage Wins Pulitzer; David Bromberg

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Virginia Tech Shooter Identified; How Safe are Schools?; State of Shock; China on a Tight Rope; Berkshire Bucks; A New Tolkien Novel

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Monday, April 16, 2007

Virginia Tech Shootings; The Word History of Nappy; French Presidential Elections; Letters; Marathon Pioneer

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Leahy Questions Lost E-Mails Claim; CBS Axes Imus; Profile: Bill Richardson; The Week In Sports; The Woman Behind Martin Scorsese

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Security Cracks in Iraq; Asia Powers Meet; Twenty One Months Later; Bread, Milk, Magazines and…Penicillin?; The Musical Legacy of Eddie Palmier

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Charges in Duke Case Dropped; Changing the Drinking Age; Who is C. Vivian Stringer?; Can McCain Revive his Campaign?; Art Imitating Life?

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Imus Fallout; “Too Far from Home”; Honor Guard instead of Baggage Handlers; Climate Crisis Concert; The Singing Janitor; Bourgeois in Boston

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Monday, April 9, 2007

Iraqis Mark Four Years of U.S. Occupation; “Appeal for Redress”; McCain and Iraq; Dice K Comes To Town; Choosing Motherhood

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Former British Detainees Meet the Press; Combating Climate Change; RFIDs Under the Skin; Sports Update; Martin Sexton

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

Detroit to Close 34 Schools; Atul Gawande; Senator Jack Reed on Iraq Funding; Could Sanjaya Win?; To the Fallen

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Iran to Free British Detainees; Global Warming and Public Health; “Separation Because of Personality Disorder”; A High Speed Train For California?; Novelist Gish Jen

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Iranian Diplomat Released; A Translator’s Tale; The State of U.S.-Venezuela Relations; Balancing Act; “Dog Years”

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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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