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StoryCorps
1:57 am
Fri June 1, 2012

When Mom Is Right, And Tells Police They're Wrong

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Robert Holmes, 67, is a professor at Rutgers University.
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Originally published on Fri June 1, 2012 12:28 pm

When Robert Holmes' parents moved to Edison, N.J., in 1956, they were one of the first African-American families to integrate the neighborhood.

"After we'd moved to Edison, there was a resentment that we had broken into the community," Holmes says.

Even at the age of 13, Holmes felt the animosity. The neighborhood had a private swim club that opened up to anyone who participated in the Memorial Day parade. Holmes was in the band.

"I arrived at the pool on Memorial Day having marched in the parade with my uniform still on, and they called the police," he says.

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Movie Interviews
11:03 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

Andrew Garfield, Disappearing Into Spidey's Suit

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Andrew Garfield plays Peter Parker and his superheroic alter ego in The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Comics' reboot of the popular superhero film franchise, in theaters July 3.
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Andrew Garfield as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols.
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Originally published on Fri June 1, 2012 8:04 am

Andrew Garfield is an actor on the verge of superstardom — and he's only 28 years old.

Although Garfield may be best known to American audiences for playing Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, Garfield started acting in England, where he grew up. There, Garfield made notable turns in the critically acclaimed Red Riding Trilogy as well as in Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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NPR Story
9:57 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

Ethics Group Head On Edwards Verdict

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Originally published on Thu May 31, 2012 9:58 pm

A jury found former Democratic Sen. John Edwards not guilty on one count of campaign finance fraud and was deadlocked on five other counts. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C., filed an amicus brief in the Edwards corruption case, asking that it be thrown out. Melanie Sloan, executive director of the group, offers her insight.

Election 2012
6:09 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

Boston Takes Center Stage In Fight For White House

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Mitt Romney shakes hands as he walks into the House Chambers during inaugural ceremonies at the State House in Boston in 2003. the Obama campaign sought to focus attention on Romney's tenure as Massachusetts governor.
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David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's senior strategist (center), stops to shake a demonstrator's hand as he leaves a news conference at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Thursday.
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Originally published on Thu May 31, 2012 9:58 pm

President Obama's re-election campaign is training some of its heaviest guns on a new target — the four years that GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney served as governor of Massachusetts.

In Boston Thursday, David Axelrod, a top Obama campaign adviser, joined Democratic state legislators and mayors on the steps of the State House to lampoon Romney's record there as governor between 2003 and 2007.

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The Two-Way
5:57 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

LIVE BLOG: The National Bee Casts Its Spell

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Sam Lowery, of Charlestown, Mass., spells his word in the air during Round 2 of the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., on Wednesday.
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Spelling contestants walk back onto the stage for the third round of the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., on Wednesday.
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Nathan Dugan, of Canton, Ohio, spells "cantankerous."
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Vanya Shivashankar, 10, of Olathe, Kansas, spells a word during the semifinals on Thursday.
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Lena Greenberg, 14, of Philadelphia, spells out a word in the air.
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Mignon Tsai, 12, of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, reacts as she misspells a word during Round 5 of the semifinals on Thursday.
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Jae Canetti of Fairfax, Va., concentrates on his word "habendum" during the semifinal round on Thursday.
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Despite looking nervous, Simola Nayak, 13, of DeKalb County, Ga., spells a word correctly in Round 5 of the semifinals on Thursday.
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Abigail Violet Spitzer of El Paso, Texas, reacts after spelling her word "tondino" correctly during Thursday's semifinal round.
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Vismaya Kharkar, 13, of Bountiful, Utah, is jubilant after spelling "allothogenic" correctly.
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Emma Ciereszynski, 14, of Dover, N.H., shrugs after misspelling a word in the finals of the contest.
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Lena Greenberg, 14, of Philadelphia, is eliminated during the finals Thursday.
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With confetti falling, Snigdha Nandipati, 14, is embraced by her brother, Sujan Nandipati, after she won the National Spelling Bee with the word "guetapens" Thursday.
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With confetti falling, Snigdha Nandipati, 14, is embraced by her brother, Sujan Nandipati, after she won the National Spelling Bee with the word "guetapens" Thursday.
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Originally published on Fri June 1, 2012 5:45 am

Snigdha Nandipati, 14, of San Diego has been crowned the champion in the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Her winning word was "guetapens," a French-derived word for "an ambush, snare or trap."

A very calm Snigdha beat eight other finalists, including her last competitor, Stuti Mishra, 14, of West Melbourne, Fla. Stuti got tripped up on the word "schwarmerei."

The winner got $30,000 in cash, a trophy, a $2,500 savings bond, a $5,000 scholarship, $2,600 in reference works from the Encyclopedia Britannica and an online language course.

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