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Jihad Jane Under Scrutiny, Inside The Magazine Industry With “Mr. Magazine”, School Closings In Kansas City?, The Latest From Israel, Ella Fitzgerald At “The Crescendo”

School Diversity Plan Under Fire In North Carolina, Fired Teachers in Rhode Island and Beyond, Under Pressure Greece Plans Austerity Package, Cell Phone Latency Problems, Forty Years Of Rounder Records

Haiti-U.S. Relations, Texting Help to Haiti, Financial Crisis Commission Hearings, Desperation from Port-au-Prince, Bees in Appalachia, Mexico-centric Indie Rock

Fort Hood Shooting, Guantanamo Detainees in Amherst Massachusetts?, Can’t Get There From Here, The Indie Band ‘The Walkmen’

The New York-based rock band “The Walkmen” have been compared to Bob Dylan and U2, but as they age their hard rock sound is giving way to softer ballads. We caught up with the band at a concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Afghan President, Internet Stimulus Money, Election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Quick Note on Ground Beef Recall, The Fall of the Wall, Poncho Sanchez

9/11-Linked Passport Discovered in Pakistan, Rosanne Cash and ‘The List’, Afghanistan, Biotech Companies and Health Care Reform, Letters, The Death of Edgar Allen Poe

Healthcare and Too Big To Fail, Plain English Campaign, Back to Srebrenica, Governor’s Races in New Jersey and Virginia, Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms

Where Has All The TARP Money Gone?, Slow Money, Iran’s Nuclear Program, Bank of America under Investigation

Anxiety Turns to Skepticism Over ‘Balloon Boy’, Where The Wild Things Are, The Cost of War, Five Farms, Part Five, Nashville Artist Will Hoge’s ‘The Wreckage’

Af-Pak Strategy Reconsidered, Online Gambling, New Japanese Cemetery, Neko Case

Father Seeks Answers after Son Killed in Battle of Wanat, Wall Street Considers Bundling Life Insurance Policies, Court Decision on Italy’s Berlusconi, American Girl Doll, What’s Next for David Letterman?, The Gabe Dixon Band

Bad News for Job Seekers, Remembering Rod Serling, Afghan Public Protection Force, The Secret Life of Eran Egozy

Iran Talks, Assignment Detroit, Making a Better Light Bulb, Doing Your Own Genetic Testing, Letters and A Harpist Retires

Health Care Debate in Congress, Accused Terrorist Zazi Pleads Not Guilty, Chicago School Violence, President Considers Path Forward in Afghanistan

Obama at the UN, Technology in the Classroom, Flooding in the South, MacArthur Genius, Rodrigo y Gabriela

Protecting Consumers and Curbing Bankers, Remembering Composer Leon Kirchner, Struggling Synagogues, ACORN Under Fire, Curbing Larry David’s Enthusiasm

We speak with Boston jazz fixture Charlie Kohlhase, who has a new album with his septet, Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorer’s Club.

Cash for Clunkers, Afghan Star TV show, Curbing CEO Pay, Bike Polo, Steroid Scandal Snares Ortiz & Ramirez, “Escape from Bellevue” memoir

Mortgage Modifications, Chinese Immigrants in the U.S., Tagging Trash, Gates in Iraq, Brad Washburn

Captured Soldier, Mars: The Next Frontier?, Tour de France Update, More Lobbying than Ever on Healthcare, Music to die for?

Pennsylvania Workers Temporarily Lose Paychecks in Budget Impasse, Great American Songwriters & their Songs, Kaboom!, The Flushing Remonstrance, Revolutionary War Blindspot

Fair or Foul?, Online Gambling Addiction, Madoff Laswuits, Sports and Your Letters, Neko Case

A New Day for GM, Green Monster?, April Fools’ Computer Worm, Can Robots Help Autistic Children?, Balkan Rocker

The a cappella group Ball in the House pays us a visit. Five guys, five voices, their sound draws from pop, soul and R&B and their roots are here in Boston.

Geithner on the Economy, Anesthesiologists and Drug Abuse, Advice for the Car Czar, Ball in the House, Congressman Barney Frank on the Bailout, Skating Sweethearts, Ball in the House

Stimulus Plan, Peanut Butter and Salmonella, How are Rights Changing Under Obama?,Super Bowl 43, RPM Challenge

Your Tax Dollars at Work, Ted Haggard, Gaza Truce Breach, Road ‘Smahts’, Brandeis Closing Art Museum, Andras Schiff

John Thain, The Oxford Project, Kids’ Anxiety, Letters, Inauguration Stew, What Puts the Crash in The Clash?

Hillary Clinton Confirmation Hearing, Annals of Gullibility, 2009 Outdoor Stories, The Guy Who Announces the Inaugural Parade, Digital Music and the Record Industry