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All Things Considered

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

In-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hear two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

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Author Interviews
3:21 pm
Sun January 27, 2013

'Manifest Injustice': A 40-Year Fight For Freedom

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Barry Siegel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
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Originally published on Sun January 27, 2013 5:34 pm

In 1962, a grisly double murder on a deserted stretch of desert rocked a small community outside Phoenix.

A young couple had been shot to death in a case that stumped Maricopa County investigators. Then, something happened that should have cracked it wide open: A man named Ernest Valenzuela confessed to the crime. But police didn't pursue the lead, just one misstep in an investigation and eventual trial that were rife with irregularities.

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U.S.
5:34 pm
Sat January 26, 2013

Investing In Citizenship: For The Rich, A New Road To The U.S.

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The Barclays Center in New York, the new home of the Brooklyn Nets, was built partially with investment from overseas donors seeking U.S. citizenship. A little-known immigration program allows wealthy investors to get a green card in exchange for funding American businesses.
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Originally published on Thu January 31, 2013 1:17 pm

The traditional immigrant story is a familiar one.

Someone who longs for a better life makes the tough journey, leaves behind the hardships of his or her native land and comes to the United States to start again. That story, in a lot of ways, helped build this country.

These days, however, there's a very different kind of immigrant who wants to come to this country — the rich — and they have a different set of dreams.

Anthony Korda was a barrister, or lawyer, in England who vacationed frequently in the U.S. with his family.

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Author Interviews
4:40 pm
Sat January 26, 2013

Ship Those (Virtual) Chips: The Rise And Fall Of Online Poker's Youngest Crew

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Ship It Holla Ballas by Jonathan Grotenstein and Storms Reback.
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Jonathan Grotenstein is a writer and professional poker player living in Los Angeles. He is the co-author, with Phil Gordon, of Poker: The Real Deal.
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A former sports reporter and columnist for Jackson Hole News, Storms Reback writes and plays professional poker in Austin, Texas.
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Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 5:59 pm

In the early 2000s, the get-rich-quick scheme of choice for young college dropouts was poker — and not your grandfather's poker, with clinking chips on green felt tables. Online poker. For a few years it was a national obsession for a generation of young men who grew up playing hours and hours of video games.

Many of these players couldn't get into casinos because they were underage, but they used their brains and introductory statistics courses to rake in millions, often playing 10 or more games simultaneously on huge computer monitors.

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Analysis
4:02 pm
Sat January 26, 2013

Week In News: A Rocky Start To Obama's Second

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Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 5:34 pm

Less than a week into his second term, President Obama has already met with resistance over procedural matters, such as his use of the recess appointment to circumvent the Senate confirmation process. Weekends on All Things Considered host Robert Smith speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic.

Performing Arts
4:02 pm
Sat January 26, 2013

The 'Life And Times' Takes Audiences On A Lengthy Journey

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Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 5:34 pm

Life and Times is a 10-hour play about the life of one ordinary woman. It opens this week in New York city, and weekends on All Things Considered host Robert Smith attended a performance, complete with meals. He talks to the play's directors and to the woman on whose life it's based.

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