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WBUR: Here and Now

Produced by WBUR FM in Boston and PRI, Here and Now features fast breaking news, more leisurely analysis, and human interest stories. We also cover the arts: film, theater, music and much much more.

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Here and Now for Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Date: 05/20/2008
Length: 00:44:00

Thousands of Iraqi forces entered Sadr City today, asserting government control over the vast district for the first time since the American invasion. Sadr City has been the stronghold of anti-American cleric, Muqtada Sadr, and while his forces did not fire a single shot today, they still remain fully armed. We'll speak with Ross Colvin, Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters. Big money and partisanship are just some of the reasons why so little gets done on the avenue that connects the White House and Congress. We speak with journalists, John Harwood (chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and political writer for the New York Times) and Gerald Seib (assistant managing editor and executive Washington editor of the Wall Street Journal) about their new book "Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power," which chronicles who the movers and shakers are in Washington. The fact that Israel was able to bomb a suspected nuclear installation in Syria last September without being detect

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