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Movie Interviews
2:48 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

Actor Ralph Fiennes On Taking Risks With 'Coriolanus'

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Caius In Charge: Ralph Fiennes directs co-star Vanessa Redgrave in his big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
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Bad To The Bone? No stranger to characters with autocratic tendencies, Fiennes played the evil wizard Voldemort in the Harry Potter films.
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For his directorial debut, actor Ralph Fiennes brings William Shakespeare's work to the big screen with a modern adaptation of Coriolanus. Fiennes also stars as the eponymous Roman general, a role he played on the stage 11 years ago.

The original play, Fiennes tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz, is complex.

"I had this feeling that if you were to clear away a lot of the denser passages, and shorten it and edit it, you are left actually with a very visceral, sinewy political thriller," Fiennes says.

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The Two-Way
2:14 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

Gabrielle Giffords Steps Down: 'I Am Getting Better'

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced on Sunday that she will be stepping down from Congress.
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By Melisa Goh

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Remembrances
12:11 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

Penn State Football Legend Joe Paterno Dies At 85

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Penn State head coach Joe Paterno stands with his team before they take the field during an NCAA college football game against the University of Wisconsin in State College, Pa., on Oct. 13, 2007.
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Usually attired in thick, smoky-lens glasses, rolled up khakis, jet-black sneakers and a blue windbreaker, Paterno was easy to spot on the sidelines.
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The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL.
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Penn State was finally awarded a national championship 1983 when they beat Georgia 27-23 at the Sugar Bowl.
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Former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was expected to succeed Paterno before retiring in 1999. In early November 2011, Sandusky was charged with sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years.
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The child sex abuse scandal engulfed Paterno. After 61 years with the university, he was fired on Nov. 9 by Penn State's Board of Trustees.
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Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football, died Sunday. He was 85.
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Joe Paterno, the man synonymous with Penn State football, died Sunday after developing complications from lung cancer. He was 85.

Paterno was an iconic figure on the sports landscape. He coached at Penn State for 61 years, though his long tenure ended amid a child sexual abuse scandal.

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It's All Politics
11:45 am
Sun January 22, 2012

Gingrich Applauds Romney's Tax Decision; Santorum Declares Three-Man Race

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By Greg Henderson

The morning after a stinging defeat in South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would release his most recent tax returns this week, ahead of the Florida primary.

Romney said he would release his 2010 tax returns and an estimate of what he'll pay for 2011 on Tuesday. "We made a mistake in holding off as long as we did," he told Fox News Sunday.

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Election 2012
9:44 am
Sun January 22, 2012

Mexican Cousins Keep Romney's Family Tree Rooted

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Miles and Kent Romney, (left to right), distant cousins of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. Miles believes his cousin's candidacy is nothing less than prophetic.
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Colonia Juarez is an orderly, prosperous town with a population of approximately 1,000 people, located at the foot of the western Sierra Madres in Mexico. Of the population, most are Mormons and about 40 are Romneys.
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Hispanic voters are a key group in the presidential race, and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has been reaching out to them. Should he tell them that he himself is the son of an immigrant from Mexico?

Romney's father, George, was born in the state of Chihuahua, in a colony of polygamous Mormons.

Romney rarely speaks about the Mexican branch of his family, and he's never visited his numerous cousins south of the border — but the Romneys of Mexico are all rooting for him.

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NPR Story
8:00 am
Sun January 22, 2012

How Ron Paul And Rick Santorum Performed In SC

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NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the also-rans in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

NPR Story
8:00 am
Sun January 22, 2012

Arab League Weighs Monitoring Mission In Syria

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Arab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo on Sunday to decide whether or not to continue the Arab League's monitoring mission in violence-torn Syria. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro.

Presidential Race
8:00 am
Sun January 22, 2012

Romney Finishes Second To Gingrich In SC

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NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who came in second in South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday.

Presidential Race
8:00 am
Sun January 22, 2012

South Carolina Voters Reflect On Saturday's Primary

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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is the winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney placed second. NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with South Carolina voters about who they voted for in Saturday's primary and how they made their decisions.

Technology
8:00 am
Sun January 22, 2012

Technological Innovations Help Dictators See All

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As technology gets better — and cheaper — it's becoming easier for authoritarian governments to watch and record their populations' every move. John Villasenor of the Brookings Institution joins host Rachel Martin to discuss the phenomenon.

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