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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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For Black Americans, Finding Work An Uphill Battle
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie, and though in the past few years our economy has improved, the unemployment rate for black Americans, now 13.2 percent, is about double that for white Americans.
 
Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
 
Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
 

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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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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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Shelf Discovery
Jul 15, 2011 — NPR coverage of Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
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Books That Helped Us Grow Up
Jul 23, 2009 — There are some books — like those by authors Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, for instance — that helped define childhood and teenage awkwardness, but still ring true well into adulthood. Lizzie Skurnick and Meg Cabot talk about the books from our childhoods we can't seem to put down.
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Gift Books to Delight and Enthrall
Dec 2, 2005 — With her gift book selections, NPR's Ketzel Levine will take you wandering through old maps and contemporary art galleries, courtside at the NBA, inside the minds of raucous high school kids, and into the embrace of poems.
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Excerpt: 'Girl Sleuth'
Nov 30, 2005 — "I was never into Nancy Drew, no way, but after seeing my friends react to its cover alone, I see the huge niche for this book," writes senior correspondent Ketzel Levine in her roundup of the best gift books for this season.
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