• DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    May 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST

    ... course my son comes first." Also at the after-school center, boxing coach Umar Abdus-Salaam keeps a watchful eye on three of the Tate brothers, whose father died. Abdus-Salaam takes all the boys he coaches not just to boxing matches but on fishing trips and to sporting events ...

  • From machines to manicures, what goes into the GDP these days?

    From machines to manicures, what goes into the GDP these days?

    Apr 29, 2014 08:23 PM EST

    ... opinion of some of these alternate measures? The subjectivity is the Achilles heel of it. Maryland’s GPI has 20-some indicators, for example. What weight do I put on each? How much do I subtract for the commuting time? And if I enjoy my commute, maybe it’s one ...

  • New play depicts drama of Mideast peacemaking at ‘Camp David’

    New play depicts drama of Mideast peacemaking at ‘Camp David’

    Apr 04, 2014 01:00 AM EST

    ... you just saw, but you have watched the Middle East. How important were the Camp David accords and are they still? MARGARET WARNER: As Lawrence Wright and Jerry Rafshoon just said, really essential, because you took the two most powerful armies and the -- and sworn enemies, and they cut a ...

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    Does Emotion Ever Have a Role in Foreign Policy?

    Jun 01, 2012 03:05 PM EST

    ... year-old who described how he dropped to the floor in his house after his family members had been murdered, smeared his six-year-old brother's blood on himself, and played dead. These are the scenes we remember and struggle with, passed along by journalists, as we think about ...

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    The Silent, Deadly Epidemic of Non-Communicable Disease

    Sep 08, 2011 05:00 PM EST

    ... in the richest countries on earth? Obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes...do these changes simply mean people in poor countries are becoming more like their brothers and sisters in the rich world? Sure, but with a key difference. In wealthy countries, individuals, insurance companies, and governments spend 10, 50, 100 ...

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    British Resident Suspected in Sweden Bombing, North Korea Warns of War

    Dec 13, 2010 01:25 PM EST

    ... news agency, referring to Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and to a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, saying "so will your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die, like our brothers, sister and children die." North Korea Warns of Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula North Korea's state-run ...

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    Conversation: Jonathan Franzen

    Sep 30, 2010 08:00 PM EST

    ... a very powerful experience of it, these really giant figures in my life, and I was this little kid and I had two much older brothers and these powerful and often clashing parents, and every novel I’ve written — it’s been four novels — I’ve tried to draw on ...

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    Conversation: Ethan Hawke on Directing Shepard's 'A Lie of the Mind'

    Feb 24, 2010 07:08 PM EST

    ... a major off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1985 play, “A Lie of the Mind,” produced by the New Group. The story of two brothers, a pair of highly dysfunctional families in the American West and a husband who mistakenly thinks he’s beaten his wife to death, “A ...

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    Why Can't We Let Too-Big-to-Fail Companies Fail?

    Jan 06, 2010 05:43 PM EST

    ... m afraid not. Or more to the point, OTHERS are afraid not. The reason they’ve been saved is that when one wasn’t — Lehman Brothers, thought NOT too big to fail — the world financial system pretty much froze. No one dares chance that again. The real question, then, is ...

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    Levon Helm: Rambling on the Roots

    Feb 02, 2009 05:35 PM EST

    Nestled in the woods at the foot of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, the majestic wooden structure that is home to Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble concert series is quite the site.