2008 April | Here & Now

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Economy; McCain; The Candidate and the Reverend; Baseball’s Greatest Hit

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Bush Press Conference; Diabetes and African American Kids; Runner with Prosthetic Legs; Anne Sofie von Otter

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Indiana Photo ID; Reverend Jeremiah Wright; Panama Canal; My Space Art; Kurt Vonnegut

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Rev. Wright; “Second Skin”; Measuring the Economy; Listener Letters; Atheist Rocker

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Nuclear Site Videotape; Life Expectancy And Women’s Health; Blackwater; Rice Rationing; A Night At The Opera

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Petraeus Destined for CentCom; Slavery; Pennsylvania Primary; Undecided Superdelegates; Last Days of the Rickshaws

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Pennsylvania Votes; The Pentagon’s Hidden Hand; Human Rights in Afghanistan; I-Phones for Students; “Monique and the Mango Rains”

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Politics; Wiretapping and More; Food Prices; Paul Revere’s Ride; The Boston Marathon

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Veterans’ Suffering; Dirty Tricks in Presidential Campaigns; Polygamist Wife; Matzoh Marathon; Poetry Everywhere

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Iraq Violence; Debate in the Keystone State; American Catholics; The Week in Sports; Deranged Chic

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Death Penalty Case; Electronic Waste; Virginia Tech One Year On; Democrats Debate; “Unaccustomed Earth”

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Airline Merger; Papal Visit; Polygamist Ranch Raid; Girls and Sports Injuries; A History of Jazz

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Obama Flap; Housing Help; Robots and Roadside Bombs; Living the Slow Life; Bipolar Disorder

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Report: Administration Vetted Interrogation Techniques; Olympic Torch Controversy; “Body of War”; Tax Tips; Asha Bhosle

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Troop Deployments; The Dalai Lama; Airline Woes; Only A Game; Lazy Lester

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Olympic Torch Troubles; Pay Day Lenders; Andrew Bacevich on Iraq; Tarawa; Stolen Childhoods

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Iraq Hearings; Iraq Hearing Analysis; The Office in Real Life; Arizona Moves to Leave NCLB Behind; The B-52s are Back

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Olympic Torch Relay; Biracial America; Zimbabwe Elections; Provencal Singers; Double Exposure

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Zimbabwe; Garbage; Bush-Putin Meeting; Peace Symbol; MLK and Boston, 1968

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Airline Safety; The Presidential Race; Green Collar Jobs; This Week in Sports; “Shine A Light”

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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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