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Show archive for October, 2006

The Rove Effect; Musical Chairs; Hubble, Hubble, Toil and Trouble; A Divided Church; Boston Costume’s last Halloween; Hellish Nell

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Missing Weapons in Iraq; Economic Concerns; Laura Bush Helps Republican Candidates; To Be Determined; Nightmare: Face Your Fear; Marathon Man

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California Fire; Ballot Initiatives and Referenda; Hungarian Revolution; World Series Update; Letters; Kurt Cobain Tops Forbes List; Halsey Burgund’s Booth

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Bush Signs Secure Fence Act; Appeals for War’s End; Older Recruits for Iraq; Spreading the Wealth; Family of a Fallen Marine; Conversation with a Cabbie

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Bush Meets the Press; Key States for Democrats; Rush, Michael and Campaign Ads; A Conversation with Wangari Maathai; Cartoon Rejects; The Refugee All Stars

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Timeline; Profile: Nancy Pelosi; Setback to Darfur Peace Process; Feeding the Army; Madhur Jaffrey Looks Back

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Rethinking Iraq; Romney Seeks Mormon Support; Arizona Politics; Radio for All in Africa; “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple”

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Iraq War Plans; “The One Percent Doctrine”; Congressional Price Tag; Schoolyard Game Banned; Dragonfly Soars

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Paper Names Priest Who Abused Foley; Russia’s Walter Cronkite; Tracking MySpace Predators; Sports Rundown; Running with Scissors

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Deadly Month in Iraq; Political Maneuvers; Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori; Can You Tell the Difference Between a Sunni and a Shiite?; Tribute to Jazz

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Former FDA Chief Pleads Guilty; Outsourcing Patients; A Regime on the Brink?; Entrepreneur; Arthur Miller Remembered

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Who Will Take a Seat?; When the War Hits Home; Officials Respond To Increasing Murder Rate; Sick of Catching a Cold?; “Driving Lessons”

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Report from the United Nations; Democratic Outlook for 2008; Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus; President Bush: A Fashion Critic?; Chocolate and Fluff Volcano; Community of Vloggers

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Troops in Iraq for Four More Years; Exporting Faith; Election Profile: North Carolina; Bill Littlefield’s Sports Beat; “Deliver Us From Evil”

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Study: Iraq Death Toll at 655,000; Single-Sex Public Schools; An Uphill Struggle; Google and YouTube: A Perfect Match?; Pop Music Rocks On

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Raising the Stakes; Closeted on the Hill; Literacy Program Marred by Mismanagement; 299,999,999; “The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl”

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North Korea; China’s Christopher Columbus; Nuclear Proliferation; Skating Comeback; Feeding the Modern American Family

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North Carolina Fire; The Price is Wrong; Signing Away; The Mexican-American Perspective; Brazilian Girls All Over the Globe

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Ethics Committee Meets; Frank Rich; Amish in Mourning; Sports Update; “Reds” Revisited

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Foley Scandal Taking Toil on GOP; Asia News Update; Invisible Border; A Former Page’s Perspective; A Walk in Walden Woods

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Pennsylvania Shooting; Union for White Collar Workers; The Foley Factor; Letters; “No Bigger than a Minute”

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Foley Fallout; Umass Researcher Wins Nobel; Study Links Premature Birth and Infant Mortality; Election Analysis: N.J. and R.I. Senate Races; A Fluff Piece; P.D. James in Paperback; “The Lighthouse”

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