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NPR Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century
2:55 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

Oakland Turns A Corner As Calif. Faces Budget Woes

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Ryan Curtis leans in for a kiss from Love Kovtun on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood in April. New businesses and investment have helped revitalize the city's downtown over the past decade.
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A performance artist dances on 23rd Street in Oakland as First Friday Art Walk attendees pass by.
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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 2:17 pm

The city of Oakland, Calif. has long been associated with crime, poverty, urban decay and, more recently, violent protests tied to the Occupy movement.

So it may have been a surprise to New York Times readers when the newspaper listed Oakland as No. 5 among its top "places to go" in 2012.

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Remembrances
1:05 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith: A TV Icon From Mayberry To 'Matlock'

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In the drama Matlock, Kene Holliday (top left), Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Griffith and Kari Lizer played a criminal defense team that often came out on top.
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In 2005, President George W. Bush honored Griffith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "demonstrating the finest qualities of our country."
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Griffith attends the 2003 unveiling of a bronze statue of the characters Andy and Opie from his hit TV series The Andy Griffith Show in Raleigh, N.C.
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Actor Andy Griffith was best known for his role as the gentle, small-town sheriff of Mayberry on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He died Tuesday at 86.
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Griffith on the set of the 1958 film No Time for Sergeants. Griffith starred in the live television, Broadway and film adaptations of Mac Hyman's 1954 novel.
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Griffith and Juliet Prowse pose on the set of The Second Time Around, a 1961 Western comedy starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who moves from New York to Arizona.
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Ron Howard played Griffith's son, Opie. "They always have the kids in situation comedies be brats," he said, but the Andy-Opie relationship was different.
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Don Knotts played bumbling Deputy Barney Fife to Griffith's Sheriff Andy Taylor on the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
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Griffith's marriage to Barbara Edwards (left) ended in 1972. He married Cindi Knight in 1983, and they settled in his home state of North Carolina.
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Actor Andy Griffith died Tuesday at 86. He sits in uniform, as Sheriff Andy Taylor, on the set of his television series The Andy Griffith Show in 1967.
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Born in North Carolina, actor and comedian Andy Griffith was known for playing the wise, gentle Southern patriarch, both in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and the 1980s-'90s legal drama Matlock.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 7:06 pm

In a career that spanned half a century, actor and comedian Andy Griffith starred in five different television series, made more than 30 movies and even recorded a Grammy Award-winning gospel album. He died Tuesday morning in North Carolina at the age of 86.

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Movie Reviews
12:07 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

A Lanky Teenager On The Path To (Super) Power

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Andrew Garfield stars in The Amazing Spider-Man, in which the nerdy, web-slinging superhero gets an overhauled origin story.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 7:06 pm

I know you're skeptical. Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man was last slinging webs just five years ago. Broadway's Spider-Man started singing about webs less than two years ago. Now here comes another Spider-dude: This Andrew Garfield guy. So he'd better be really something, right? Well, as it happens, he is.

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Planet Money
5:51 pm
Mon July 2, 2012

Scandal That Cost Barclays Chairman His Job Threatens To Spread

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London-based Barclays Bank agreed to pay a $453 million fine over charges it manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate — LIBOR — a key global interest rate.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 12:24 pm

Every day at 11 a.m., a few big banks tell the British Bankers' Association what it costs them to borrow. Out of that comes LIBOR — the London Interbank Offered Rate, a dull but vital interest rate that underpins trillions of dollars of transactions globally, from home mortgages and personal credit cards to major corporate lending.

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Election 2012
5:29 pm
Mon July 2, 2012

Obama's 'Clean Coal' Fighting Words To W.Va. Dems

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A sign outside the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in Williamson, W.Va., welcomes visitors to "Hatfield McCoy Country," referring to a legendary family feud that played out in the Appalachians.
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The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in Williamson, W.Va., is also home to The Coal House, built entirely of coal in 1933.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 11:34 am

Mingo County, deep in the southwest corner of West Virginia, has sent a "protest vote" to the attention of President Obama. In the May 8 Democratic primary, voters chose a man named Keith Judd to run for president. He got 61 percent of the vote.

Judd won't be available. He's serving a 17-year sentence for extortion. From prison in Texas, he managed to file the papers, pay the fee and get on the West Virginia ballot.

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