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AP Case Adds To Obama Team's Tough Record On Leaks
May 17, 2013 | NPR · His administration has prosecuted six people for giving reporters information about secret national security operations — twice as many cases as all previous presidents combined. Amid criticism from First Amendment advocates, the White House insists it values both press freedoms and national security.
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Weighing Freedom Of The Press Against Public Safety
May 17, 2013 | NPR · The Justice Department has been scrutinized this week for secretly obtaining phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors while investigating the disclosure of a CIA operation to thwart a terrorist attack. Steve Inskeep talks to Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment lawyer, about how the Constitution and the law treat press freedom.
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Select Young Afghans Chosen As Commandoes In Training
May 17, 2013 | NPR · From the Afghan capital Kabul, Morning Edition's Renee Montagne talks to Gen, Joseph Dunford, the commander of all U.S. and international forces there. They discuss the challenges of the current situation on the ground, and look ahead to the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014.
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Boom Or Bust? Saving Rhode Island's 'Superman' Building
May 19, 2013 | NPR · The iconic Industrial Trust Tower in downtown Providence is empty for the first time in 85 years. Developers want to turn it into luxury apartments — and want the state and city to pay for it. But Providence — like the rest of Rhode Island — faces its own economic problems, as well as a recent failed investment.
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Remembering The Long Lost Germans Of Texas
May 19, 2013 | NPR · More than a century ago, German settlers found a pocket of Texas to call home between Austin and San Antonio. And once the local lingo merged with their own language, it proved to be an interesting dialect. Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with University of Texas professor Hans Boas, who has been archiving the last remaining speakers of this unique blend.
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The Unsuccessful Quest For A Universal Language
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Within science circles, trying to come up with a new universal language was a trendy past-time in the 17th Century. Even the man who discovered gravity, Sir Isaac Newton, took a stab at it. Arika Okrent, editor-at-large at TheWeek.com, talks about its failure to catch on with Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden.
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Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Research shows that prime-time television isn't a bad place to find portrayals of working women. Working moms and working women over 40 are another story.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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Special Podcast Edition: Tragedy in Newtown
Dec 16, 2012 — In this week's podcast of weekends on All Things Considered, our coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. We hear reflections and calls for action from religious and political leaders. Also, soothing words from poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Then uplifting music from composer Andre Rieu.
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Saving Rhode Island, Intern Rights, And Amanda Knox
May 19, 2013 — In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: A look at the state of Rhode Island as it fights for economic stability. Also, intern rights, writer Clair Messud, and how a 1965 American novel became a hit in Europe. Plus, Amanda Knox on her new memoir, and a-capella king Deke Sharon.
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Guantanamo, A Multiracial Nation, And Rudresh Mahanthappa
May 12, 2013 — In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: Guantanamo, an increasingly multiracial America, closed-caption glasses in movie theatres, James Salter's new novel, a biography of Robert "Believe It Or Not" Ripley, and the soul-infused jazz of Rudresh Mahanthappa.
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Drones, Dur-Dur Band, And A Derby With Hunter S. Thompson
May 5, 2013 — In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: targeted killings, a game-changing week in Syria, the coming out of Glenn Burke, a remembrance of Hunter S. Thompson's trip to the 1970 Kentucky Derby, and the Somali dance music of Dur-Dur Band.
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Kansan Politics, Guatemalan Justice, and Iranian Cartoons
Apr 28, 2013 — On this week's episode of the Weekends On All Things Considered Podcast: Kansas politics, a Guatemalan dictator on trail, and a book of Iranian political cartoons.
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Reflecting On Boston, The Biggest Trivia Contest, And The Music Of Amy Speace
Apr 21, 2013 — On this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: We took some time to reflect on the Boston bombings with Muslim scholar Omid Safi, and others, then the country's oldest trivia contest, and finally the music of singer Amy Speace.
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Big Data, Mammoths Under Melting Ice Caps, And A Nick Drake Tribute
Apr 14, 2013 — In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: Big Data, then, oil, gas, and woolly mammoth tusks discovered under melting Arctic ice, and a Nick Drake tribute almost twenty years after his death.
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Student Loans, Cicadas And Stinkbugs, And The Music Of Gin Wigmore
Apr 7, 2013 — On this episode of the Weekends on All Things Considered podcast, a check-in on student loans, the impending cicada and stinkbug invasion, and the rocker music of New Zealand;s own Gin Wigmore.
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Mapping The Human Brain, Back To Alcatraz, And The Music Of Chic Gamine
Mar 31, 2013 — In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered, President Obama is putting aside money to map the human brain, we visit Alcatraz 50 years after it closes, and the musical genius of Chic Gamine.
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Detroit's Financial Struggles, And The Music Of Willis and Robison
Mar 24, 2013 — On this episode of the Weekends on All Things Considered podcast: Detroit's financial struggles, the first integrated team in baseball, and country music couple Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison.
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