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Surely, Remembering Leslie Nielsen

The comic actor died at age 84

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When The Men Are Gone

The lives of soldiers and their families

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Stuntman Secrets

Hal Needham reveals tricks of the trade. Mon 2pm and 10pm

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Privilege and pressure: growing up black and elite in 'Negroland'

Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago's black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson inhabited a world of ambition, education, and...

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'Tomeka Reid Quartet' offers a tightly synchronized mix of cello and guitar

Cellist Tomeka Reid was headed toward a career as a classical musician, but was drawn to jazz. Critic Kevin Whitehead says her band's new album, The Tomeka Reid Quartet, has good chemistry all...

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Chris Offutt Reveals a Family Secret in 'My Father, The Pornographer'

Offutt's late father went from running a small insurance agency to writing more than 400 books, mostly pornography. The writer tells Fresh Air his dad believed he would be "extremely famous" for...

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'Narconomics': How the Drug Cartels Operate Like Wal-Mart And McDonald's

When Tom Wainwright became the Mexico correspondent for The Economist in 2010, he found himself covering the country's biggest businesses, including the tequila trade, the oil industry and the commerce...

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