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April 13, 2011 In She Walks In Beauty, Caroline Kennedy collects poems that have inspired her at various milestones, as a daughter, a woman and a wife. Elizabeth Alexander's work appears several times in the collection. She joins the conversation to talk about the relationship between the poet and the reader.

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April 12, 2011 A jury began deliberations Friday in the trial of former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds, accused of perjury and obstruction of justice related to steroid use. Athletes charged with drug use often find their reputations tarnished — but not always irreversibly.

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April 11, 2011 When Cokie and Steve Roberts married in 1966, they faced a choice familiar to many mixed-faith couples: practice no religion, pick one or the other, or find ways to observe both. In Our Haggadah, the couple describes how they celebrate Passover with family and friends of all faiths.

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April 7, 2011 Author and scholar Manning Marable dedicated much of his career to uncovering provocative new details about the life and death of Malcolm X. Marable died days before his finished biography, Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention, was published.

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