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Roxane Gay: 2014 Was The Year Of 'Enough Is Enough'

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Roxane Gay: 2014 Was The Year Of 'Enough Is Enough'

Author Roxane Gay spent 2014 thinking and writing about issues that exposed divides in America over race and gender. She offers her thoughts on some of the year's most-talked-about stories.

Roxane Gay: 2014 Was The Year Of 'Enough Is Enough'

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Hockey's Doc Emrick And His 153 Verbs

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Sweetness And Light

Hockey's Doc Emrick And His 153 Verbs

Hockey announcer Mike "Doc" Emrick is that rare play-by-play man who is both an authority on the game and a connoisseur of the language.

Hockey's Doc Emrick And His 153 Verbs

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Tuesday

Saturday

How Pete Seeger Revealed The Power Of Music To Me

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How Pete Seeger Revealed The Power Of Music To Me

The death of Pete Seeger this year has NPR's Eric Westervelt reflecting on how the folk legend convinced him that music could create community and possibly foster change.

How Pete Seeger Revealed The Power Of Music To Me

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Friday

For Wintry Weather, An Especially Cold And Snowy Tale

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This Week's Must Read

For Wintry Weather, An Especially Cold And Snowy Tale

This week we celebrated not only Christmas, but also the solstice — the shortest day of the year. In honor of this wintry weather, author Edward Carey recommends his favorite winter fairy tale.

For Wintry Weather, An Especially Cold And Snowy Tale

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The Grocery Delivery Man Who Brings Joy To A Housing Complex

Herman Travis (L) with his friend, Robert Cochran (R) at StoryCorps in San Francisco. Travis delivers groceries from a local food bank to his elderly neighbors, like Cochran. Courtesy of Storycorps hide caption

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StoryCorps

The Grocery Delivery Man Who Brings Joy To A Housing Complex

A San Francisco man talks about why he volunteers to deliver groceries to his elderly and disabled neighbors.

The Grocery Delivery Man Who Brings Joy To A Housing Complex

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Thursday

A Punch Line In The U.S., Christmas Fruitcake Is Big In Calcutta

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The Salt

A Punch Line In The U.S., Christmas Fruitcake Is Big In Calcutta

Seen as indestructible in the West, fruitcakes are indispensable in the bustling Hindu city. Bakers of all faiths have the ovens running round the clock to feed Calcutta's appetite for the cakes.

A Punch Line In The U.S., Christmas Fruitcake Is Big In Calcutta

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Wednesday

Deford: It's Hard To Write A Christmas Story About Sport

A sculpture at Britannia stadium in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent commemorates the Christmas Truce, a legendary soccer game played between German and British troops in December 1914. Rui Vieira/AP hide caption

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Sweetness And Light

Deford: It's Hard To Write A Christmas Story About Sport

Linking sports and the Christmas spirit is a true challenge, says commentator Frank Deford. "The idea of sports is to beat the other fellow," he says, "while the idea of Christmas is to be giving."

Deford: It's Hard To Write A Christmas Story About Sport

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Tuesday

From Our Listeners

Letters: What If 'The Interview' Trashed The U.S. Instead?

Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish read emails from listeners about Sony's decision to cancel the Christmas-day release of The Interview, and on the effort to save the northern white rhino.

Letters: What If 'The Interview' Trashed The U.S. Instead?

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Sunday

30 Years Of Friendship, Through Fear And An Uncertain Future

Doug Neville (left) and Ryan Johnson have been friends for three decades. They met shortly before Neville found out he was HIV-positive. StoryCorps hide caption

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30 Years Of Friendship, Through Fear And An Uncertain Future

Doug Neville and Ryan Johnson met shortly before Neville learned he was HIV-positive and began living with the specter of death. "I didn't know what I was going to do if you died," Johnson says.

30 Years Of Friendship, Through Fear And An Uncertain Future

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