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Show archive for April, 2006

Washington Wrap; Genocide Now and Then; Iran “Won’t Give a Damn”; Unconscious Plagiarism?; Opera: Sewing to the Top

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Backlash; Living with Aids in South Africa; It Cost Billions, But Can it Fly?; NFL Draft and MLB Steroids; Monkey College

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The New White House Press Secretary; Green Likes Nukes; Twenty Years Later; House-hunting at Zillow.com; Sheepish Advertising; Samite

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Gas Prices Have Consumers Seeing Red; Caffeine Nation; Paul Rusesabagina on Darfur; Standing Room Only; Patti Lupone

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Congress: Back in Town; Ijtihad – “Think for Yourself”; Ken Lay Testifies; Harvard’s Possible Plagiarist; September 11th the Movie

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Return to Democracy in Nepal?; Squeezing Oil out of Sand; A Sergeant Returns to the Ballet; Elections in New Orleans; Allen Lannom — A Life in Music

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China’s Hu Visits the White House; Spotlight on China; Boston Archdiocese Opens its Books; Not OK in Oklahoma; Putting Autism on Stage

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McClellan Out; NOLA Healthcare; Language Export; Insanity on Trial; “American Dreamz”

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Duke Lacrosse Players Arrested and Charged; Disposable Workers; The Next Big One; The Times Picayune’s Peter Kovacs; Lord Buckley

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Duke Rape Case; Slavery and the Revolution; DNA Testing for All; Marathon Podcast; Intuition

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More call for Rumsfeld’s Resignation; Fighting the Insurgency: Rewriting the Rules; A Look Ahead at the Boston Marathon; White House Easter Egg Roll; “How Would You Illustrate Your Faith?”

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General: Rumsfeld Must Go; Immigration Hits Home; The Judas Gospel; A Multicultural Seder; Beckett’s Birthday

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Massachusetts Healthcare Bill Now Law; Post Polio Syndrome; Iran Takes Nuclear Strides; Who Reads Poetry?; Israeli Pop Revolution

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Italian Elections; The Continuing War in the Congo; Choosing Immigrants; Protection for Pets; Searching for the “Tank Man”

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La Marcha; A Democrat’s Strategy for Republican Success; Attacking Iran?; Gas Prices Bring an Expensive Summer; Meryl Streep

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Suicide Bombers Kill 46; Spring Break for Congress; Organization for Organizers; Your Turn; Sound Portrait: Buckets of Gold

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Senate Immigration Vote; A National Model?; Families in the ER; The Fish that Walked; Courtroom Art

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Health Care for All?; Do Vitamins Work?; Palestinian Students Speak; Bye Bye Katie; Mencken’s Life

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Delay Leaving Congress; Inflammation; French Protests; NCAA Update; Author Myriam Cyr

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Defense in Enron Case; Militias in Iraq; The High Court and Jose Padilla; March Madness in April; Growing Up Bernstein

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