2008 August | Here & Now

Friday, August 29, 2008

Presidential Politics; Katrina 3rd Anniversary – and Tropical Storm Gustav; Pakistan; Denver Postcards from Robin Young; Denver Postcard #2

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Convention Latest; Eleanor Holmes Norton; Historic Convention; Protests at the DNC; Kenyan Gymnasts; Superdelegate, Super-young

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Convention Update; Democratic National Convention – Or Revival?; Joe Biden; YouTube; Political Films

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Women and the Democratic Party; Roll Call; Senator Kerry on What Obama Has to Do to Win; Damon Runyon

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Monday, August 25, 2008

The Democratic Convention; Lawrence Guyot; Deval Patrick; The Delegates; Michelle Obama; Ted Kennedy

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Friday, August 22, 2008

The Olympics; Vice-Presidential Politics; Letters; TV Killed the Conventions; Milos Foreman

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Iraq Withdrawal; The Elephant in the Room at the Democratic National Convention; Rick Bass; Maria Schneider

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Missile Defense; A Doctor’s Story About Performing Abortions; The FCC and Product Placement on Television; Anatomy of a Subway Hack; Who Owns Antiquity?

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Presidential Politics; Beijing Update; Nuclear Engineering; Downward Dog; The Last Rose Farm

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Musharraf Resignation; The Starbucks of Libraries; Budget Crisis Film; Outdated Cars; The Counterfeiters

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Rick Warren; College Loans; College Reading; Pakistan in Transition; Google in Japan; Norman Porter

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Georgia — The U.S. Options; Cyber War Beyond Georgia; Meth Project; Olympics; Geezer Jocks

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Georgia; Hillary Clinton’s Campaign; Olympics; Computer Hacking; Elvin Bishop

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Russia and Georgia Showdown; A $100 Incubator?; Betting on the Weather; Rick Riordan

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Georgia and Russia; Retirement; Immigration Equality; Wii Habilitation; Batman and George W. Bush

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Olympic Update; Opening Ceremonies; Afghanistan; Lee Israel’s Memoir of Her Life as a Forger

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton; Christopher Dickey and the American South; The Mysterious Clark Rockefeller; I.D. Theft; Nina Simonds on Today’s China

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Hamden Verdict; Who is Aafia Siddiqui?; How to Handle Interrogation; Can the Olympics Lead to Reform in China?; Sponsors and Olympics; Herbie Hancock

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Anthrax Deaths; Howard Zinn; Beijing Air Quality; Wu Shu; Bluegrass in China

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Rakan’s Death; Moscow After Dark; Anthrax Scientist; Women Priests; The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

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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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