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Week In Sports: Spurs Take First Game Of NBA Finals

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 4:39 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Now strike up the band. Time for sports.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

SIMON: From the red clay courts of Roland Garros to the hardwood courts of Miami and San Antonio. They're playing for championships this weekend. NPR's Tom Goldman joins us. Morning, Tom.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: How are you, Scott?

SIMON: I'm just fine thank you. And let's begin with tennis and Les French Open. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are playing at the very moment, as we're speaking, at the women's singles finals.

5:32 am

Sat June 8, 2013

The Time Esther Williams Taught Scott Simon To Swim

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 4:39 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

It's not often that you get to take a swimming lesson from a box office idol.

ESTHER WILLIAMS: See if you can lift your elbow until you stretch that arm out straight. Oh, you're going to improve your stroke so much just this afternoon. You'll see.

4:55 am

Sat June 8, 2013

Fifty Years Later, 'A Better Chance' Trains Young Scholars

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Sylvester Monroe and then-wife Regina at his graduation from Harvard University in 1973.

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Frank Hernandez is a senior at The Thacher School. He'll be attending President Obama's alma mater, Occidental College, in the fall.

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Mahogany Monette is a junior at The Thacher School. She's thinking of applying to Northeastern University in Boston.

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 4:39 am

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Fifty-five boys — all poor and almost all African-American — were a part of a bold educational experiment in the early 1960s. They were placed in an intensive summer school program. If they finished, the headmasters of 16 prep schools agreed to accept them. Tuition paid.

Planning for that experiment started in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement, one year before President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his "War on Poverty." Today, what began with 55 students and 16 schools has become an institution celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's called "A Better Chance."

4:26 am

Sat June 8, 2013

Aoife O'Donovan: Digging Up Musical 'Fossils'

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Aoife O'Donovan's first solo album is called Fossils.

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 9:12 am

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Alison Krauss recorded "Lay My Burden Down" a couple of years ago for her No. 1 country album Paper Airplane, but the song was written by Aoife O'Donovan. The singer, best known as the voice of the alt-bluegrass band Crooked Still, is releasing her first solo album this week.

4:25 am

Sat June 8, 2013

WWII Vets Have All But Vanished From The Halls Of Congress

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Military pallbearers carry the coffin of the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg into the Senate chamber on Thursday. He was the only remaining World War II veteran in the Senate.

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Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., is celebrated by friends and colleagues on Capitol Hill on Friday, as he becomes the longest-serving member of Congress in history.

By Don Gonyea

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 4:39 am

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Sen. Frank Lautenberg was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. There was a steady rain. Soldiers fired rifle volleys, a bugler played taps and mourners paid their final respects.

The New Jersey Democrat was 89 when he died this week — and his death marked a somber milestone.

For the first time since the end of World War II, there are no veterans of that war in the U.S. Senate. Lautenberg had been the only one remaining.

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