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Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Hour 2
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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

 
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May 17, 2013
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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

 
May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

 
May 16, 2013
U.S. pianist , composer and music producer Burt Bacharach performs during a concert at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, Wedneday, July 6, 2011. (AP)

The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

 
May 16, 2013
Graduates from various institutions take part in the Toss Your Caps: Philly Graduates College photo opportunity on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, May 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP)

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

 
May 15, 2013
Alexis McKenzie, right, executive director of The Methodist Home of the District of Columbia Forest Side, an Alzheimer's assisted-living facility, puts her hand on the arm of resident Catherine Peake, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP)

How an Arizona retirement home has found a kinder, gentler way to take care of patients with dementia.

 
May 15, 2013
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP)

Uproar over the IRS and its inquiries. Over snooping on the AP. We tackle both.

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Mar 6, 2009
The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft may be doomed. We covered the ambitious mission when it first launched.
 
Sep 25, 2012
Angelina Jolie undergoes a preventative double mastectomy. We covered how genetic analysis is changing our understanding of breast cancer.
 
Feb 20, 2013
A victory for Monsanto from the Supreme Court. We covered the case.
 
Oct 1, 2010
Homebrewing is soon to be legal in all 50 states. We looked at the bubbling universe of homebrewed beer.
 
Jun 3, 2009
New numbers reveal big differences in the prices that hospitals bill Medicare. Listen to our hour with Atul Gawande about managing health care costs.
 
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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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Classical Music's Future Sound: From Brooklyn to Persia and Beyond
Thursday, May 2, 2013

The genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider performed live for On Point, and talked classical music’s future and the art of blending sounds from around the world.

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