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Show archive for December, 2006

Saddam Hussein’s Death Sentence; Risks of Mountain Climbing; The Trial of Saddam Hussein; New Year’s Resolutions; A Kennedy’s Journey Home

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President Ford’s Comments on Iraq War; “Enrique’s Journey”; Congress’ Legislative Performance; Biggest Sports Stories of 2006; The Art of Whistling

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The Endangered Polar Bear; The Story of Five Chinese Classmates; The Presidency of Gerald Ford; New Year’s Eve Food and Music

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The Latest From Somalia; The Price is Wrong; Remembering Professor Lane Faison; Miss Dewey; Children of Men

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Iraqi Reporter on Iraq Today; Soldier on the Internet; How “Christmas” Became Merry; A Joyful Noise

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This is a Test; DVD Collections for the Holidays; Iraqi Oil; White Christmas in Denver; Kenya Runners

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Marines Face Charges; “Where God Was Born”; The High Price of the Holidays; Sports Update; “Dreamgirls”

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Bush Press Conference; War in Afghanistan; Who Should Pay for Rescue Missions?; Faith Quilts; CD Boxed Sets for the Holidays

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Study: Safety Issues for Small Cars; Reverse Outsourcing; The Push to Drop Pot; Nutcracker Dancer from Jamaica Plain; “51 Birch Street”

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Nuke Deal; Building Bridges Through Music; From Iraq Contractor to Detainee; Holiday Cheer; United 93

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Study: Decreased Breast Cancer Rate; Journalist George Packer; Remembering the Dictator; Photographing “Back Home”; “Pussy Cats” Album

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Senator Undergoes Brain Surgery; Evangelicals & Homosexuality; FTC Proposes a Ban on Robo-calls; Sports Update; The Man of Many Voices

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Saudis Warn Against U.S. Pullout; Palestinian Violence Worsens; Art Exhibit: Joseph Stalin’s Gulags; Christmas Dance; Chris Botti

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Briefing the President; The New Vietnamese?; “After the Fall”; Hip Broken, Not Spirit; From “CSI” to “Dublin”

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Iraqi PM in Danger of Revolt; Presidential Hopefuls; Bristol Bay; Salmon Swim Upriver; CD Box Sets Boost Sales

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Investigators Eye Bar in Litvinenko Case; Saving Baby Mariam; A New Arts Museum for Boston; Sports Update; “Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby”

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Iraq Study Group; Mindful of Moral Reasoning; “Wings of Desire” Takes Flight

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A Blunt Assessment; Blood Diamonds; Scholars at Risk; Around the World On A Mule; Cookbooks of the Year

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The Gates Hearings; A Look at the Iraq Study Group; Foal Fowl; New York Says No to Trans Fats; Mountain Man

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Bolton Resigns; Gates Nomination Hearings; Palimpsest; Siemens Winners; “A Night in November”

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The Litvinenko Case; Week in the News; Latin American Elections; Poison Fiction; Carl Tanner

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