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May 17, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
The poor have always paid higher interest rates. But not as high as now. 25 percent on car loans. 30 on credit cards. 500 percent on payday loans. Rates so high that the poor have now become one of the . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
In the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon to crush Hezbollah –and failed badly. Within weeks, they formed a commission to find out who failed and why. They’ve just issued their . . .
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April 23, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
In light of last week's decision by the court to uphold a ban on an abortion procedure, On Point is looking today at the new High Court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts. The court is lined up to . . .
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April 13, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
On Point is tasting today the new frontier of beans getting the buzz with George Howell, founder of the George Howell Coffee Company and of The Coffee Connection, which he sold to Starbucks in 1994 . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
On Point is talking today to Seth Lerer, English and Comparative Literature professor at Stanford. He has just written a book titled "Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language," which . . .
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May 16, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
Paul Wolfowitz was the intellectual star of the neo-conservative crew that drove the country to war with Iraq. Today, he's the World Bank president who used his position to land his girlfriend a sweetheart . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America. He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans were, . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
America has poured more than $10 billion of aid into Pakistan since 9/11, and more than half that went straight for the country’s so-called lawless frontier – Pakistan’s mountainous Northwest . . .
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April 10, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
On Point spoke today with super acting coach Susan Batson who's worked with the likes of Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Chris Rock, Tom Cruise, Madonna and more and helped them shine on the big screen. . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Less than a week after leaving rehab, police arrested actress Lindsey Lohan for driving drunk and possessing cocaine. Britney Spears has also made headlines for seeking treatment. Robert Downey, Jr. has . . .
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