2008 November | Here & Now

Friday, November 28, 2008

Mumbai, Day Three; A Cycle of Violence; Day of Mourning for Retailers?; Malls Are New Main Street, USA; Thanksgiving Leftovers

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Gift; The iLimb Hand; Dinner from the Homefront; A Vegas Thanksgiving; Uncle Lach and the Snow Geese

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Holiday Travel; A Conversation with Rose Styron; The Economy; Word of the Year?; Calvin Trillin

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Billions More for the Bailout; Mindless Eating; Keeping Gates?; Daycare Centers Feeling Economic Downturn; Cleve Jones on “Milk”

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Citigroup; Why Did Conservatives Blow It?; Obama’s Economic Team; Where Is Matt Harding?; Techie Thanksgiving

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Chinese Cyber-Spying; Reviving Old Instruments; KKK; The Week in Sports; “Sports Night”; Listener Letters

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Al-Qaida in 2008; Children of Jihad; Obama’s Team So Far; Joan Baez

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Pirates; A New New Deal?; The Use of the Word “Dignity” in Ethical Debates; Ethnic Potato Dishes for Thanksgiving

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Are There Any Jobs Out There?; Auto Bailout; Cult of Clean; Obama Day; The Man Behind “WALL-E”

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Congress is Back; Salaries for College Presidents; Forgiveness of Debt; Sex Week; Bebe Neuwirth

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Friday, November 14, 2008

World Economic Summit; Brazil’s Economy; Performance Reviews; Endangered Mammals; A Life List of Music

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Auto Industry Bailout; Should the Obamas Send Their Daughters to DC’s Public Schools?; Secretary of Education; Palin TV; Google and the Flu; Deerhoof

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Is the Bailout Working?; Homeowner Help; Closing Gitmo?; Model Vice-Presidency; Presidential Pardons; The Barefoot Contessa

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Economy Update; A Soldier’s Song; Statesmen Portrait Artist; Cutting Through Red Tape at the V.A.; Colonel John Ripley

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Economy; Cleaning Out Foreclosures; Obama’s Priorities; Organic or Conventional?; Soldiers’ Children

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Obama Economy; Black on the Inside; Supreme Court; This Week in Sports; Listener Letters; God on Trial

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Whither the Republicans?; What’s next in Iraq?; California’s Proposition 8; Gun Sales; Gregory Maguire’s Cowardly Lion

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Obama Wins; Inside the Campaigns; The Historic Election; From Jim Crow to President Elect Obama

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day; Waiting for Election Results; Campaign Dirty Tricks; Election Day Poem; The Hidden Persuaders

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Monday, November 3, 2008

Live Free and Vote; Election Pinwheel; Alaska on the Eve; Pranksters Reach Governor Palin; Election Day Trifecta; John Adams Composer

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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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