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The Two-Way
1:02 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

We Must Mention Don Grady Of 'My Three Sons,' It's The Polite Thing To Do

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Don Grady (second from right) as "Robbie Douglas," with (at far left) Barry Livingson as "Ernie," Fred MacMurray as "Steve Douglas" the dad, and Stanley Livingston as "Chip."
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Now that we're past the day's big news about health care, we just want to take a moment to note the death of actor Don Grady. He died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.

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Fresh Food
12:16 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef

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James Beard award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson has been a judge on Top Chef, Iron Chef America and Chopped.
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Marcus Samuelsson owns two restaurants in New York City and two restaurants in Sweden. He's cooked for President Obama and prime ministers, served as a judge on Top Chef and Chopped, and recently competed against 21 other chefs on Top Chef Masters. (He won.) He's the youngest chef ever to receive two three-star ratings from The New York Times.

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It's All Politics
12:16 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Legal Scholars React: 'Many People Were Stunned'

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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 5:08 pm

In the most anticipated and politicized Supreme Court ruling since Bush v. Gore, which decided the 2000 U.S. presidential contest, the high court on Thursday let stand, in a 5-4 decision, the centerpiece of President Obama's health care legislation.

Chief Justice John Roberts, providing the deciding vote and writing the majority opinion, laid out the rationale, which says that Congress under the Commerce Clause does not have the authority to require people to buy insurance — but it does have the authority to tax people who do not have coverage.

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The Two-Way
12:15 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

The Health Care Ruling Was SCOTUSblog's Olympics

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Reporters await a decision by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare legislation.
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 4:39 pm

At its peak, 866,000 people were glued to SCOTUSblog, waiting for the Supreme Court's judgment on President Obama's signature legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Not very long ago, SCOTUSblog was an unknown, a website where lawyers and legal wonks parsed even obscure Supreme Court decisions. But over the past few weeks, it has become the go-to place to get up-to-second news on the court.

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The Record
11:48 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Adulthood Can Wait: Why Justin Beiber's 'Believe' Works

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He's Only Eighteen: Justin Bieber's new album, Believe, is his fourth to hold the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album chart.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 6:38 pm

The way people are talking about Justin Bieber's newly minted No. 1 album, Believe — and the transition into adulthood it's meant to represent for the young star — you'd think that he were being prepped for a monarch's throne or the Dalai Lama's robes, not a long career in pop.

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It's All Politics
11:41 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Obama's Supreme Court Health Care Victory Hard To Overstate

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President Obama signs the health care bill into law at the White House on March 23, 2010.
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Originally published on Fri June 29, 2012 2:50 pm

Even in Washington, a city where hyperbole rules, it still seems difficult to overstate how big a win the Supreme Court's decision on President Obama's signature piece of domestic legislation is for the man in the Oval Office.

The Affordable Care Act is so identified with him, after all, that its opponents quickly dubbed it "Obamacare," a term supporters at first eschewed but later came to embrace.

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A Blog Supreme
11:37 am
Thu June 28, 2012

A Cirque Du Soleil For The Senses: Five Jazz Groups From Montreal

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L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus' latest album, L'âge du cuivre, was just nominated for a Juno Award.
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 2:04 pm

C'est la saison de jazz à Montreal! Starting Thursday night and running through next weekend, Francophone Canada's cultural metropolis hosts its grand prix: the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The self-proclaimed "largest jazz festival in the world" casts a musical spell over the city, across 10 outdoor stages, 15 concert halls and clubs galore with more than 1,000 shows.

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The Picture Show
11:31 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Moby's Other Pet-Project: Photography

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Moby takes pictures of The Hives guitarist Nicholaus Arson in 2002.
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Berlin: "There's something really comforting to me about office buildings at 4 a.m., when the lights have been left on for the cleaning crew."
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Toronto: "I believe she is the nun of the future."
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Lausanne: "A sea of people. I particularly like how the form of the crowd reflects the topography."
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"I look at a bleak fortress like this house, with its chain-link fence and fenced-in beat-up car and I wonder, 'What goes on in here? What has gone on in here? And what will go on in here?' "
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"All things considered, my favorite place in L.A. Architecturally it's pretty simple, like a humble little mission chapel. ... [It's] currently an L.A. outpost of the international theosophical society ... and in its past it was ... a directors club where Orson Welles staged plays [and] a little lecture hall where Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley spoke."
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"Maybe some people think that the old, run-down motels and hotels are eye-sores, and are representative or indicative of the seediness and faded glamor of L.A. But I love them."
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New York: "There was this little sign in this weird hallway. It said, 'unattended luggage will be destroyed,' but one word at a time."
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 5:48 pm

Moby doesn't like proper punctuation. But he does like taking pictures. He writes:

"i don't sleep very well when i travel. and as a result, i tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. that's where this album, and the pictures that accompany it come from."

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Monkey See
11:25 am
Thu June 28, 2012

More Than Words: How Some Movies Wind Up With Lousy Subtitles

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When Alice's flamingo-cum-croquet mallet was translated as a "flamenco," I'd had enough.

Everybody makes mistakes, but whoever was responsible for the error-ridden subtitles nearly ruined my viewing of Alice, Jan Švankmajer's otherwise delightful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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NPR Story
11:12 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Health Care Ruling: Business, Legal Reactions

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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 1:03 pm

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

We have been devoting this hour of MORNING EDITION to the Supreme Court's decision upholding President Obama's signature health care law that came through less than two hours ago. Within minutes of the court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, health care related stocks swung up and then down.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

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