2008 June | Here & Now

Monday, June 30, 2008

Bidding on Iraqi Oil; Author Mark Kurlanksy; McCain to Woo Evangelicals; The Fastest Man in the World?; Anne with an ‘E’

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Friday, June 27, 2008

North Korea and Atomic Reactor; Domestic Surveillance; Bride and E-Bay; The Mysterious Montague; Abigail Breslin

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Supreme Court Rejects Gun Ban; Zimbabwe Radio in London; Democrats in Unity; Sports Roundup; Maple Bats and More; Evolution of a Bluegrass Standard

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Supreme Court Decisions: Exxon-Valdez and Child Rape; Sierra Leone Mental Health; China’s Military Power in Review; Biking to Work; Musician Josh Ritter

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Dueling Reports on Iraq; Middle East Check In; Flooding; Pregnancy Pact; Wall-E

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Zimbabwe; Impeachment; Singularity; Arts Engagement; Amy Bloom

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Missouri Floods; Midwest Floods/Development; Bees; Zimbabwe Run-off Elections; Sports with Bill Littlefield; Medal of Honor Winner Remembered

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Obama Opts Out of Public Financing; Leisureville; Teen Pregnancy Pact; Celtics of Today; Anish Kapoor

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Oil Drilling; Transracial Adoption; Floods of 1993; American Cheerleaders in India; Celtics; Educational Rap

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Torture Hearing; Blue Fin Tuna; Foreclosures Increase Homeless; Shakespeare in a Church Basement; Children’s Literature

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Iowa Floods; Fuel Efficiency Tips; Canada Apologizes to Native Americans; Science for Kids; Music of Cyprus

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Iowa Flooding; Maurice Sendak; Parental Leave; Letters; Sports; Ellis Paul

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Guantanamo Detainees; Asperger’s and the High Tech Industry; Iran; Students Change the Margins; Summer Music

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Midwest Flooding; A Beautiful Struggle; South Korean Protest; Edith Wharton’s House; Tony Preview

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Tomato Salmonella Scare; Gay Marriage; Presidential Politics from the European POV; Ubunto; Young Adults Moving Back Home

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Presidential Election; Doctors Without Borders; Airlines; David Sedaris

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Friday, June 6, 2008

First Hand Account of Strife in Zimbabwe; The Politics of Food; Risk Premium; Rescuing Race Horses; Massachusetts Art

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Presidential Politics; Constantine’s Sword; Energy Drinks; Tradio; NBA; Men’s Tennis

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Obama as “Presumptive Nominee”; Vice President; Arraignments at Guantanamo Bay; Obama-Kenya Reaction; Among the Cannibals

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Presidential Politics; Space Walk; Iraqi Boy in Boston Hospital; John Harbison’s “Ulysses”

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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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