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Spiders And Fighting And Trees, Oh My: Filming ‘The Hunger Games’
May 9, 2012
Star Jennifer Lawrence and director Gary Ross talk about shooting their new film, The Hunger Games . Lawrence underwent grueling training and braved on-set spiders to make Katniss Everdeen come to life.
Can Mo’ Money Really Mean Mo’ Problems?
May 9, 2012
Many people believe money can solve all their problems. But Richard Watts, a financial and legal advisor to the very rich, says there’s some truth to the saying, “more money, more problems.” Watts speaks with host Michel Martin about his new book, Fables of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don’t Want
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Can Mo’ Money Really Mean Mo’ Problems?
‘Drift’: Rachel Maddow On Why We Go To War
May 9, 2012
In her new book, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow invokes Thomas Jefferson to argue for limited government — at least in the case of the military. She argues that sometimes we got to war because we’ve invested so much in military strength.
Book review: ‘The Hunt for KSM’ is a true thriller
May 9, 2012
Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer retrace the hunt, capture and interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The tale told by former Los Angeles Times reporters Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer in “The Hunt for KSM,” the story of the pursuit, capture and interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of9/11, at times so resembles something straight out of “24″ or the Bourne movies that the authors have to keep reminding the reader that this is for real. On the one hand, “The Hunt for KSM” is a flat-out thriller.
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Book review: ‘The Hunt for KSM’ is a true thriller
Craig Claiborne Set the Standard for Restaurant Reviews
May 9, 2012
Craig Claiborne’s weekly restaurant reviews, which first appeared 50 years ago this month, separated the best restaurants from the ones merely favored by the aristocracy.
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Craig Claiborne Set the Standard for Restaurant Reviews
Bahrain: A New Sectarian Conflict?
May 9, 2012
Joost Hiltermann Getty Images Bahraini youths run for cover as police fire teargas during Labor Day protests in the Manama suburb of Sanabis, May 1, 2012 Until 2011, the tiny island nation of Bahrain was mainly known to the outside world for one thing: an annual Formula One car race, the first of its kind in the Middle East, that signified the country’s arrival among the community of stable advanced nations. But then came last spring’s popular uprising and brutal government crackdown, and a different side of this Gulf monarchy came to light: the longstanding grievances held by many Bahrainis, including above all members of the island’s Shia majority, against its Sunni ruling family, who in turn seem prepared to use force to hold onto power. The regime prevailed, and after inviting an investigation of human rights abuses last fall, it suggested it was bringing the country back to normal; this spring’s Grand Prix would show the world it had succeeded
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Bahrain: A New Sectarian Conflict?
Murdoch’s Pride Is America’s Poison
May 9, 2012
Fox is the empire’s good son, but also its most toxic legacy.
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Murdoch’s Pride Is America’s Poison
‘Fug You’: The Wild Life Of Ed Sanders
May 9, 2012
Ed Sanders co-founded the legendary avant-rock band The Fugs, and went on to be an important member of the Youth International Party — the Yippies. He’s also a classical scholar who’s written a new memoir of life on New York’s Lower East Side in the 1960s.
How to End This Depression
May 9, 2012
Paul Krugman Susan Walsh/AP Images President Obama on a tour of the Master Lock factory in Milwaukee with the company’s senior vice-president, Bon Rice, February 2012 The depression we’re in is essentially gratuitous: we don’t need to be suffering so much pain and destroying so many lives.
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How The Valdez Oil Spill Shaped ExxonMobile
May 9, 2012
Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Coll about his new book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power . In it, Coll delves into the business model of one of the country’s largest and most profitable corporations
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How The Valdez Oil Spill Shaped ExxonMobile
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