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Show archive for October, 2005

Samuel Alito’s Nomination; The Democrats React; Sex Offenders Get Halloween Curfew; Tutus and Tiaras; Orchestra Brings Phantom to Life

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The Plame Indictments; Sex Offenders Limited on Halloween; Big Money in Big Oil; Artists in Exile

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Miers Withdrawal; Who’s Next?; Indefinitely Detained; Sweep Home Chicago; Science of Star Wars

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Bombing in Israel Kills Five; Iraq Death Toll Reaches 2,000; Quilts Honor the Fallen; Fuel: Back To Basics; Interview with a Space Tourist; Jazz Treasures

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Cheney’s Role; Lewis Libby; The FedEx Economy; Quiet Strength; The Space Tourist; Rooftop With a View

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Reporters Under Fire; Hostage Experience; Hurricane Wilma; Aging Concerns; Capote; An Actor’s Challenge in Capote

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Political Round-up: Dark Days for Republicans; Divided Minds; Who is Pat Fitzgerald?; Bill Littlefield’s World Series Preview; North Country

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Fighting Breast Cancer; Abbas in Washington; Driver Profiling; Natural Gas Prices on the Rise; Chris Elliott

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Now Here Comes Wilma; Hussein on Trial; Reporter Vanishes in Iraq; In the Shadow of Saddam; Workers Take a Hit; Finding Fall Foliage; Artists Without Borders

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Homeless in the Himalayas; Plame Indictments; Billing the Wounded; Evacuations in Taunton; Love Your Body

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Valerie Plame Affair; The Iraq Vote; Earthquake Aftermath; Supreme Court Check-in; An Interview with Cynthia Lennon

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The GOP’s “Perfect Storm”; Avian Flu Arrives in Europe; LA Archdiocese Releases Files on Priests’ Abuse; Remembering Cummings; A Dido and Aeneas for the 21st Century

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Filing for Broke; At Homes in Iraq; Expert Training; Strike Three You’re Safe; Best of Science Writing

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Syria Says Interior Minister Commits Suicide; Preventing SIDS; Quake Aid; Interview With Dr. Leon Kass; Homework is Garbage; Food Fiascos

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Gulf Revival; Killings at Tal Afar Market; Liberians Line Up; Mr. Mardi Gras; Joyce Maynard

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Quake in Pakistan; 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus; Angel Island: American Dreams Shattered; Ig Nobel Awards; Michael Penn

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Nuclear Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Church at a Crossroads; President Asks Nation to Conserve; The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul; Memoir Writing’s Rough Edges

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President Defends Iraq Policy; Post-Aristide Haiti; Iraqi Journalists Under Fire; White 2, Red 0; DJ Mash

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Conservatives Divided over Miers; Author Nathaniel Fick; New Orleans Economic Woes; New Labor Federation Inagurated; Chef Jacques Pepin

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Presidential Press Conference; Tracking the Flu; Militant Islam in Southeast Asia; Intelligent Design Goes to Court; Louise Erdrich

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Who is Harriet Miers?; Iraq Panel; Hurricanes’ Toxic Wake; Playwright August Wilson Dead at 60; Ravi Shankar

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