Nov 18, 2009 -
Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So we made one for her.
By Christopher Beam
Posted Tuesday, Nov.
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Nov 07, 2009 -
On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks.
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Nov 04, 2009 -
I feel like I am exploding with advice for these bright eyed and bushy tailed first year public relations students bouncing through the halls of my school. Sure, that was me two years ago, shortly before my caffeine addiction came into existence as a result of way too many 8 a.m. classes and all nighters.
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Oct 19, 2009 -
AUSTIN SCAGGS
You and Michael were born in the same month, August of 1958. What was it like to witness a kid your age do what he did?I was madly in love with him, totally smitten. He was mind-bogglingly talented.
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Oct 15, 2009 -
NEW ORLEANS – President Barack Obama defended himself Thursday against critics in New Orleans and across the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast who feel recovery help has not come soon enough from his administration.
Making his first stop as president in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina over four years ago, Obama appeared at a town hall gathering to hear residents' concerns in person. One man asked why federal damage reimbursements are coming to locals so slowly and in amounts far less than needed.
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Sep 07, 2009 -
The Town Halls of August
They're here, they're conservative, get used to it.
by Mary Katharine Ham
It had been a rough month by the time 67-year-old Bert Stead of Redding, Calif., stepped to the microphone at an August 18 town hall meeting with Republican representative Wally Herger. It was about to get rougher.
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Sep 14, 2009 -
I know this is long and a little weird because its in interview format, but I thought this was great when I heard it the other day.
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
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Sep 17, 2009 -
Across the Middle East, what would never happen in polite company now appears on broadcasts of The Doha Debates – discussion of controversy.
Doha, Qatar; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
As soon as the cameramen called it a wrap, the audience swarmed onto the TV studio set. Almost giddy with delight, several university students from Saudi Arabia went straight for chairs vacated by the performers and pretended to be stars of the show.
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Sep 14, 2009 -
AUSTIN – Eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation’s first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism.
It’s a feeling that’s acutely felt among those supporters of Obama who are themselves minorities. Conversations with Democrats at an otherwise upbeat Democratic National Committee fall gathering here, an event largely devoted to party housekeeping, reflected a growing anger at what many see as a troubling effort to delegitimize Obama’s hold on the office.
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