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Show archive for November, 2008

Mumbai, Day Three; A Cycle of Violence; Day of Mourning for Retailers?; Malls Are New Main Street, USA; Thanksgiving Leftovers

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The Gift; The iLimb Hand; Dinner from the Homefront; A Vegas Thanksgiving; Uncle Lach and the Snow Geese

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Holiday Travel; A Conversation with Rose Styron; The Economy; Word of the Year?; Calvin Trillin

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Billions More for the Bailout; Mindless Eating; Keeping Gates?; Daycare Centers Feeling Economic Downturn; Cleve Jones on “Milk”

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Citigroup; Why Did Conservatives Blow It?; Obama’s Economic Team; Where Is Matt Harding?; Techie Thanksgiving

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Chinese Cyber-Spying; Reviving Old Instruments; KKK; The Week in Sports; “Sports Night”; Listener Letters

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Al-Qaida in 2008; Children of Jihad; Obama’s Team So Far; Joan Baez

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Pirates; A New New Deal?; The Use of the Word “Dignity” in Ethical Debates; Ethnic Potato Dishes for Thanksgiving

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Are There Any Jobs Out There?; Auto Bailout; Cult of Clean; Obama Day; The Man Behind “WALL-E”

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Congress is Back; Salaries for College Presidents; Forgiveness of Debt; Sex Week; Bebe Neuwirth

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World Economic Summit; Brazil’s Economy; Performance Reviews; Endangered Mammals; A Life List of Music

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Auto Industry Bailout; Should the Obamas Send Their Daughters to DC’s Public Schools?; Secretary of Education; Palin TV; Google and the Flu; Deerhoof

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Is the Bailout Working?; Homeowner Help; Closing Gitmo?; Model Vice-Presidency; Presidential Pardons; The Barefoot Contessa

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Economy Update; A Soldier’s Song; Statesmen Portrait Artist; Cutting Through Red Tape at the V.A.; Colonel John Ripley

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Economy; Cleaning Out Foreclosures; Obama’s Priorities; Organic or Conventional?; Soldiers’ Children

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Obama Economy; Black on the Inside; Supreme Court; This Week in Sports; Listener Letters; God on Trial

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Whither the Republicans?; What’s next in Iraq?; California’s Proposition 8; Gun Sales; Gregory Maguire’s Cowardly Lion

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Obama Wins; Inside the Campaigns; The Historic Election; From Jim Crow to President Elect Obama

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Election Day; Waiting for Election Results; Campaign Dirty Tricks; Election Day Poem; The Hidden Persuaders

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Live Free and Vote; Election Pinwheel; Alaska on the Eve; Pranksters Reach Governor Palin; Election Day Trifecta; John Adams Composer

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