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Show archive for January, 2006

State of the Union Preview; Political Snapshot; State of the Union Review; Exxon’s Profit Windfall; Remembering Coretta Scott King; Painting Greenspan; Oscar Time a Real Treat; Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

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Rice: No Aid to Hamas; Iran and the U.N.; Massachusetts Murder Mystery; Peace Talks in Sudan; Poetry on Paper; Playwright Wendy Wasserstein Dies

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DC Wrap; Vikram Seth’s Storied Lives; Israelis React to Hamas Win; Don’t Lie to Oprah; Obsessive Drawing

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Hamas Election Victory; Reaction to Hamas Victory: One; Reaction to Hamas Victory: Two; Google Taking Heat; Australian Open; Musical Makeovers

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Palestinians Go to the Polls; Debating Survelliance; What Would Washington Do?; Wages of Fear; No Longer Being Served; High Tech Bots Play Ancient Tune

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Alito Heading Towards Confirmation; Healthcare Reform Republican Style; Selective Abortions in India; Secret Prisons in Europe; The Most Depressing Day; To Be or Not to Be?

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Ford Cutting 30,000 Jobs; Hamas Poised for Big Showing; Underground Adoption: Part Two; Makeover for an American Icon; Fisher Poets

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Attacks Kill 15 in Iraq; A Most Dangerous Profession; Underground Adoption; Your Turn; Wilde Opera

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Purported Bin Laden Tape Aired; Efforts Continue to Free Reporter; Ha’aretz Columnist on Ariel Sharon; Vt. Debates Assisted Suicide; NFL Update; Of Brides, Politics and Comedy

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High Court Considers NH Abortion Law; Dueling Lobbying Reforms; The Cost of War; Abducted Reporter Faces Death Threat; Surfing on a Treadmill; January is Now TV’s Hot Season

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Mayor: NOLA will be “Chocolate City”; Problems with Medicare Drug Program; What about the Perks?; Catching up with Donovan

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Iraq Update; Worst Hard Times; Liberia’s First Woman President; Harlequin Frogs Becoming Extinct; Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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State Forces Wal-Mart to Spend More on Healthcare; Alito Hearings Day Five; Footprints and Levees; Essay: A Mother’s Passing; From the Blogosphere to the Bookstore

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Alito Hearings: Day Four; The Emerging Diabetes Health Crisis; Diabetes Clinic Closed; MySpace Invaders; Bringing Down the House

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Alito Hearings: Day Three; Rebuilding New Orleans; Endurance 101; Headphones and Hearing Loss; Biting Bed Bugs; Family Ties

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Alito Hearings; Reporter Abducted in Iraq; Voluntary Drug Testing in Schools; The Dows Hits 11,000; Albert Brooks

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Kennedy on Alito; Former CBO Head on the Federal Deficit; Iraq Update; Racist NOLA Housing Ads; Health and Grieving; “Country Boys”

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Sharon Update; Debating Presidential Power; Miners Mourned; The Week in Sports; An Artist in Occupied Iraq

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Sharon’s Stroke; Advances in Ovarian Cancer Treatment; Alito Hearings; Humor in the Court; Arthouse Theater Struggles to Survive

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Twelve Coal Miners Dead in WV Mine; Lawmakers Probe Professors’ Politics; Fallout from Abramoff Plea; Mangoes and Curry Leaves

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Miners Still Trapped; Where God Was Born; Lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Tours of New Orleans; Remembering John Belushi

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Wildfires; Divided Minds; Health Rationing; Russia, Ukraine and Gas; Music of Yesteryear

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