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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the author of Made for Goodness — written with his daughter Mpho Tutu, also a priest in the Anglican communion — and several other reflections on faith, forgiveness and reconciliation. Cameron Davidson hide caption

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Carl Kasell, a cornerstone for NPR's morning listeners for 30 years, is leaving his newscaster chair. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption

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Wilbur Ross: Finding His Calling

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Lodi Gyari: Standing With The Dalai Lama

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Lupita Tovar, Mexico's Sultry Screen 'Sweetheart'

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Norman Lear, from TV to Activism

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Greenspan Denies Responsibility for Housing Bubble

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Brazelton: Listening to Children — and Their Parents

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Iacocca Says Detroit Is Living in the Past

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Hugh Hefner on a Life Less Ordinary

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Kanan Makiya: Changing Assumptions on Iraq

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Ted Stevens, Alaska's Senate Fixture

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John Wooden On College Basketball's Lost Beauty

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Merce Cunningham: Dance at the Edge

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Life Is a Collage for Artist Betye Saar

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Stan Lee on Realism in the World of Comic Heroes

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James Lawson: An Advocate of Peaceful Change

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For Writer Lillian Ross, the Story's in the Details

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