Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. … - Audie Cornish

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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

Audie Cornish

Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

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There are still many questions about how law enforcement responded to the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. To get some answers, media organizations, including NPR, have asked for tapes of the 911 calls and other recordings. So far, authorities have not released that audio, only edited transcripts. Doing more, they say, would re-victimize the survivors.

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And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.

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Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.

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A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

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[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.

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I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

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A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.

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Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

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Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

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