2007 May | Here & Now

Thursday, May 31, 2007

The Road to the G-8 Meeting; Candidates Set to Debate Again; Darfur; Sports Update; “Architecture of the Air”

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Search is on for Abducted Brits; A Conversation with Ivan Watson; Man With TB Goes on Overseas Jaunt; Title IX; The True Story Behind “Gracie”

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Bush Orders New Darfur Sanctions; Supreme Court Rules for Goodyear in Discrimination Case; Hedge Funds Primer; Dieting Drugs from Brazil; The Iraq Wall; Ed Reed

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Monday, May 28, 2007

U.S.-Iran Talks; Two Soldiers’ Mothers; Ted Williams – The Pilot; American Heritage Magazine; The Dark Star Orchestra

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Detainees May Cast Shadow over Talks; Playwright Edward Albee; Back to Iraq; Listener Letters; “The War Tapes”

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

House Backs Off Iraq Timetable; A Conversation with Damien Cave; Supreme Decider; Sports with Bill Littlefield; The Best TV Theme Songs

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Former Gonzales Aid Testifies; Homeowner Insurance Woes in Florida; Tape May Hold Clues in Litvinenko Case; Lessons from Richmond; Rev. Billy and His Anti-Shopping Gospel

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Former KGB Agent Charged in Litvinenko Case; Fighting in Lebanon; FDA to Decide on New Birth Control Pill; The Music of Lang Lang

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Political Look Ahead; Food Safety; Food Safety; Food Safety; Food Safety; Eco-terrorists on Trial?; Kickball Comeback; The Passion and Genius of the Taj Mahal

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Legislation Would Legalize Millions of the Undocumented; World Bank Without Wolfowitz; A Father Rembers His Son; “Five Second Rule”; Lionel Shriver

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Pentagon Report on Troop Deaths; Soldiers and Child Custody; White Lies in the Workplace; For Your Ears Only; Flock of Dodos

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

House Considers War Bill; The Iranian View of the Iraq War; Falwell’s Life and Legacy; Your Turn; Music Producer Joe Boyd

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Politics and Abortion; Covering Cuba; How Good for You?; Palestinian Sesame Street; Kurt Andersen; A Death in Iraq

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Chrysler to be Sold; Jihadi Rehab; Iraq Spliting GOP; Oregon Voters Consider Tax Proposal; Musician Avishai Cohen

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Bail Hearing for the Fort Dix Six; Pigeons: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em; Law Prof Calls for Gonzales’ Impeachment; Sports with Bill Littlefield; Andres Serrano

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Gonzales Before Congress; A Looming Crisis in Elder Care; Conservation and Gas Prices; Deal? No Deal.; Patty Griffin

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Anbar Update; Slate’s Bing West on Iraq; Is the Military Rethinking “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ?; Antidepressants and Suicidality; “The Women Who Raised Me”

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Six Arrested in Army Base Plot; A Hole in Mental Healthcare; Iraq Last in Child-Survival Rankings; “The Slanted Screen”; Greenburg Relief Effort

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Monday, May 7, 2007

Residents Return to Tornado-Striken Town; The Politics of Food; Who is Gordon Brown?; Rodeo: Brazilian Style; “Beowulf” as it Should be Heard

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Friday, May 4, 2007

Pentagon Report Spotlights Mental Health Disorders; Global Warming and the Tropical Forest; Philly Mayorial Election; Crying Foul; Edward Hopper’s America

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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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