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Tuesday      
December 12, 2006
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Briefing the President

We speak to Dr. Stephen Biddle, an academic who briefed President Bush on the Iraq Study Group findings yesterday.

The New Vietnamese?

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Sean Garcia of Refugees International and Joseph Kassab of the Chaldean Federation of America join us to talk about the fastest growing refugees crisis in the world today.

“After the Fall”

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Boston Globe Health Reporter Alice Dembner talks about a series she wrote about the struggle for elderly people recovering from breaking their hip.

Hip Broken, Not Spirit

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Angeline Scardino, one of the women profiled in “After the Fall,” talks about taking it one day at a time.

From “CSI” to “Dublin”

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E. William Petersen, star of TV’s “CSI,” takes to the stage in Trinity Rep’s production of “Dublin Carol.”

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