'The Impossible' Revisits Devastating 2004 Tsunami Juan Antonio Bayona's cinematic rendition of the gargantuan wave crushing everything in its path is neither entertaining nor escapist. It's a reminder of that horrific moment in 2004, the day after C

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By Alan Silverman Irish-born Colin Farrell stars as one of the great figures of ancient history in an epic drama written and directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Alan Silverman has a look

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By Doug Levine Washington 17 March 2008 Saxophonist and vocalist Maceo Parker was only 22 years old when soul legend James Brown asked him to join his band. Parker played on some of Brown's most-notable recordings before embarking on a successful sol

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The name says it all - Jeff Lorber Fusion. Keyboardist and composer Jeff Lorber brings back his old Fusion moniker for an album reminiscent of his very first band. For the past 20 years, he's been known simply as Jeff Lorber, so it was just a matter

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Documentary Revisits Anita Hill Sexual Harassment Testimony 纪录片重温第一单性骚扰的证词 WASHINGTON Sexual harassment was a taboo subject in 1991, when a young woman spoke out about her employers unwanted sexual advances during a Senate

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Amy Tan is best known for her novels that focus on mother-daughter relationships and Chinese-American culture. Her most famous of course is The Joy Luck Club. Her latest book, Where The Past Begins, is what she calls a writer's m

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on the site of what used to be the Algiers Motel. It's gone now. It's a park. But this was the scene of a notorious incident from a week that saw too many of them. A group of white police officer

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson in Italy was the subject of the recent movie All The Money In The World. Now it's the center of a new TV series called Trust. It debuted yesterday on FX. NPR TV critic Eric

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Supreme Court Revisits 2008's Housing Collapse With Banking Test Cases play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:42repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: How big was Ring Lardner? Well, he helped create what's still called the golden age of sports writers who wrote about The Babe, The Iron Man, Dempsey, DiMagg and Joe Louis. And he went on to write short stories, novels, songs and p

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