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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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Year-End Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011
Dec 14, 2011 — 2011 was a terrific year for fiction — both from first-time novelists and much-decorated veterans. Maureen Corrigan's recommendations range from Karen Russell's dazzling debut, to David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, to what may be the Sept. 11 novel.
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The Magic Of David Foster Wallace's Unfinished 'King'
Apr 5, 2011 — David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, leaving behind one of the brightest literary legacies of his generation. His triumph, Infinite Jest, remains his best-known work, but now, a new unfinished novel, The Pale King, has emerged from notes and drafts. And it is worth the read.
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Author's Final Book An Unfinished Tale Of Boredom
Apr 2, 2011 — Writer David Foster Wallace's last and most ambitious work, The Pale King, will be published this month by Little, Brown. The book, his editor says, attempts a challenge no novelist has ever taken on: to write about the boring parts of life. But would the author want us to read it?
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David Foster Wallace's Final, Unfinished Novel
Mar 4, 2009 — When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, he left behind hundreds of pages of an unfinished novel that he'd been working on for years. Author D.T. Max discusses the late author's years of mental illness and his unfinished work.
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Wallace Invented 'New Style, New Comedy'
Sep 15, 2008 — David Foster Wallace invented a new kind of comedy, says author David Lipsky: "The comedy was of a brain so big, careful and kind it kept tripping over its own lumps." Wallace, best known for his critically acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, apparently committed suicide on Friday.
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An Author Asks That You 'Consider the Lobster'
Jul 3, 2006 — If David Lipsky had to give an alien one book about American life, it would be David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, a collection of essays that are "experiential postcards." Lipsky is the author of Absolutely American : Four Years at West Point.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Jul 15, 2011 — NPR coverage of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
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The Pale King
Jul 14, 2011 — NPR coverage of The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
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