Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Madoff, Unemployment Figures, Credit Crunch, Lemon the Duck, Anne Sofie Von Otter

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Curt Nickisch spent an evening following Dr Jennifer Millen in the ER at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Israeli Strikes at Gaza, Homelessness on the Rise, Charitable Giving, A Night in the ER, The Shack

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill, Living to 100, Smart Grids, Women Don’t Ask Why, Elvin Bishop

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

We talk with Travis Strong, his wife Misty and with John Gonsalves, founder and director of “Homes for Our Troops.”

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Homes for Our Troops, Foreclosure and Tenants’ Rights, Inaugural Ode, Letters to God, England’s Choirmaster

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The story behind Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Secretive about how much shopping you’re doing? You may have an addiction.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Reform and Afghanistan’s justice system.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Travel Delays, Afghanistan, Shopping Addiction and Charles Dickens’ Christmas

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

U.S. Economy Shrinks, Depression Santa, Facebook Usage, Boston Santa

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Monday, December 22, 2008

Pakistan One Year After Bhutto Assassination, Bailout Money, Frost/Nixon, Still No Power in Central Massachusetts, Teenage Love Poetry

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Obama and Economic Regulation, “The Year We Disappeared”, Madoff Fallout, The Schlepometer, James Isaacs Holiday Gift Picks

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Madoff Scandal, Unemployment Funds Drying Up, New College Board Test, Smaller Holiday Films

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Monday, December 15, 2008

We take a look today at the current state of labor-management relations in a recession economy.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Labor in America, Bush in Iraq, Senator Grassley on College Affordability, Palestinian Charity, The Great Books

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Illinois Corruption Scandal Creates Headache for Obama; Novelist Wally Lamb; Praying for the Auto Industry; Sports; Before Sarah Palin, There Was Michael Palin

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

What Next In Illinois?; Behavioral Economics; Rating Companies and the Economic Downturn; Chocolate, the Ancient Way; Eliott Carter Turns 100

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Auto Industry Bailout–More Than Detroit Bargained For?; India and Pakistan; Governor Blagojevich’s Arrest; A Red Kettle For Modern Times; An Inauguration Gift From Earl Stafford; Young at Heart

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Monday, December 8, 2008

Matching Homeless People with “People-less” Homes; Factory Occupation; Middle East; Letters; The Taste of Conquest

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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