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  • Top Stories: Cain Disputes Allegations; Berlusconi Faces Key Vote
    The morning's headlines include the GOP presidential candidate's response to a new charge of sexual harassment and the Italian prime minister's latest challenge — another confidence vote.
  • Concussion series pt 2: How concussions affect children
    Doctor Brian Reiger sees kids suffering from concussions every day. He’s Director of the Concussion and Sports Concussion Program at SUNY Upstate Medical…
  • Garrett Grant works inside a store in the impoverished town of Glendora, Miss. Some 24 percent of Mississippians receive on government food assistance, the highest percentage in the country.
    Mississippi Leads U.S. In Reliance On Food Stamps
    The state of Mississippi has the highest percentage of its population — 24 percent — on food stamps of any state in the country. The director of the SNAP program in Mississippi explains why.
  • U.S. Joins Hunt For Brutal Warlord In Africa
    The Obama administration recently dispatched 100 special forces to Uganda to help pursue Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. Throughout the last three decades, Kony and LRA fighters have been accused of torturing civilians and recruiting child soldiers. Host Michel Martin speaks with former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer.
  • Sugar Ray Leonard Remembers Joe Frazier
    Fraizer, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, was known for his crushing left hook, a career of 32 wins and four losses, and his rivalry with Muhammad Ali. Frazier recently died after a fight with liver cancer. Host Michel Martin discusses his life and legacy with Stiffjab.net editor Gautham Nagesh and boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard.
  • Two pedestrians stand on Broadway at West 44th Street in New York's Times Square on a November night in 1976. In his new memoir, critic James Wolcott writes about his life in 1970s New York.
    James Wolcott: 'Lucking Out' In 1970s New York
    The Vanity Fair critic was an aspiring writer when he arrived in a turbulent Manhattan in 1972. In his memoir, Lucking Out, he writes about the crime and culture (and pornography) he discovered there.
  • Herman Cain's Kimmel Show Allred Joke Was Odd Crisis Management
    Herman Cain definitely doesn't seem to have this crisis-management thing down yet. He presumably went on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday evening to fight the latest charge of sexual misbehavior on his part. Instead, he made a sexually tinged jibe about Gloria Allred, the lawyer representing his latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.
  • Tuned To Yesterday
    #450 - Mystery: Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Leon Jacoby" 11/19/49, Ellery Queen "Dead Man's Cavern" 4/13/44Tuned To Yesterday features programs…
  • Eight Months In, Violence In Syria Continues
    The U.N. says more than 3,500 people have died in Syria's eight-month cycle of protests and government crackdowns. Residents of Homs, the third largest city in the country, report fierce fighting as government forces try to regain control of the city.
  • In 2000, the Library of Congress declared Annie Leibovitz to be a <a href="http://www.loc.gov/about/awardshonors/livinglegends/bio/leibovitza.html">Living Legend</a>. Leibovitz lives in New York with her three children.
    Leibovitz Takes A 'Pilgrimage' For Artistic Renewal
    From John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono to a pregnant Demi Moore, photographer Annie Leibovitz has made a career of capturing people. But her latest collection is something very different. In Pilgrimage, Leibovitz focuses her lens on places and objects that have special meaning for her.
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