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<description><![CDATA[Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college.  We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.]]></description>
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<title>When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[President Bush went to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson Friday for the annual Independence Day celebration and naturalization ceremony. While welcoming more than 70 new American citizens, he was interrupted by a half-dozen protesters.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Jesse Helms' 30-year career in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy and racial politics. The fierce advocate for segregation and king maker in North Carolina politics died Friday at the age of 86.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[What does "patriotism" mean to you? Day to Day listeners give their take, and Time columnist Peter Beinart talks about how the right and the left have some big philosophical differences about what patriotism means.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed actor Jimmy Smits will host the 28th annual broadcast of A Capitol Fourth on PBS this July 4th. But before his primetime duties, the actor stops by NPR to discuss his television career and why he's proud to be an American. Smits also discusses the possibility of his own run for public office.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An icon of the conservative movement, former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms represented North Carolina in Congress for 30 consecutive years. He  died Friday at the age of 86.]]></description>
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<title>San Francisco Admits To Shielding Immigrant Felons</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim&#8217;s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of &#8220;Wild Thing,&#8221; for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, &#8220;This is lame,&#8221; and slipped back&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When bad things happen, it&#8217;s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Obama&#x26;#8217;s Iraq Problem</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[With the Yankees&#8217; pitching in a perpetual flummox and the distraction of a home All-Star Game looming into view in the last summer of baseball up at the Stadium, this is a good time to bring up a vivid, semi-obscure Yankee team record that almost rivals those fabled&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When Janet Hamlin first went to Guant&#225;namo Bay to work as a courtroom sketch artist, in April of 2006, she was forbidden to draw the faces of detainees in any detail, as part of the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to comply with the Geneva Conventions. By the time of her second trip&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[On October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Ohio, George W. Bush delivered the defining speech of his Presidency. In the face of &#8220;clear evidence of peril&#8221; from a regime harboring terrorists and weapons of mass destruction, he declared, &#8220;we cannot wait for the final proof--the smoking gun--that could come&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Space Dirt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephen Gorevan, a co-founder of Honeybee Robotics, has thick snow-white hair that seems to float above his head like a cloud, and he wears glasses with pronounced black frames. He greeted a recent visitor to Honeybee&#8217;s offices, on Thirty-fourth Street, by producing a magnifying glass from his&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The ginkgo, a.k.a. the maidenhair tree, or the duck&#8217;s-foot tree, is remarkable in many ways. It is a living fossil, dating to the early Permian era. It has no close relatives (classification: Plantae, Ginkgophyta, Ginkgoopsida, Ginkgoales, Ginkgoaceae, Ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba), and one of its chief characteristics is hardiness: ginkgos&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Second Act</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When friends and acquaintances of Joan Blumberger Olden, a former fashion executive in New York, received an invitation recently to a cocktail party honoring Fran&#231;ois Boziz&#233;, the President of the Central African Republic, it came as a surprise to many of them not only to discover that there was such&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Lance Stephenson, the best high  school basketball player in New York City, was in midtown one recent Monday night to watch an early cut of a new documentary in which he stars. The film, &#8220;Gunnin&#8217; for That #1 Spot,&#8221; was directed by Adam (MCA) Yauch, of the Beastie Boys, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Water, Water</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic installation artist, whose work has been on view this spring at both the Museum of Modern Art and its Queens affiliate, P.S. 1, is about to take over a large stretch of the East River. &#8220;The New York City Waterfalls,&#8221; his latest project, opens on&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Way They Move</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been plenty of (metaphorical) eye-rolling, and head-shaking, over the pronouncements of &#8220;body-language experts&#8221; who have turned up on TV this election season to parse the candidates&#8217; fist bumps and grimaces. Finger-pointing, according to Tonya Reiman, on Fox, represents a &#8220;tough guy&#8221;; Janine Driver, on ABC&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Exhillaration</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Presidential flight of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which had been aloft for nearly a year, began its descent stage on January 3, 2008, somewhere over Iowa. Five months later to the day, she piloted it to a smooth touchdown, though not without experiencing some turbulence during the final approach. First&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Citizen Mayhill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mayhill Fowler, at present the most famous &#8220;citizen journalist&#8221; on earth, recently spent a full week at home, in Oakland, after leaving Milbank, South Dakota, with her second major scoop of the campaign season: a three-minute audio clip of Bill Clinton coming unhinged on a rope line and referring&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Our colleague Calvin Trillin once referred to the televised weekend bloviators from Washington as the &#8220;Sabbath Gasbags.&#8221; Which was fair up to a point. Countless cubic feet of hot, polluted air are regularly unleashed into the national atmosphere by politicians and commentators on the networks and the cable stations, making&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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