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‘Another Player Down’: How Concern About Injuries Is Changing Sports
It’s not often that a Sunday spent vegging on football devolves (evolves?) into a Google search to parse the meaning of “déjà vu.” For the N.F.L., that’s not a good thing. Amid the Buffalo Bills’ drubbing of the New York Jets this weekend came an all too familiar sight. Just before halftime, Jets running back […]
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The Secret C.I.A. Operation That Haunts U.S.-Iran Relations
ARCHIVAL (MSNBC, 9-22-22): NEWS REPORT: The death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran who was arrested by the morality police has now sparked extraordinary scenes that we’re seeing. ARCHIVAL (BBC, 9-21-22): NEWS REPORT: They said she wasn’t wearing the mandatory hijab, or headscarf, properly. Women cry “death to the dictator” and wave their headscarves at […]
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‘Another Player Down’: How Concern About Injuries Is Changing Sports
TEXT ON SCREEN: Oct. 15, 2023 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 10-15-23):MIKE TIRICO (SPORTSCASTER): Damien Harris is in at running back for the Bills.CRIS COLLINSWORTH (SPORTSCASTER): Oh…MIKE TIRICO: Big hit by–on Harris, but past the 35-yard line. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 10-15-23):MIKE TIRICO: The worst scene you can imagine as an ambulance has come on the field to look at […]
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The Perfect Pair: Reading and Retro Report
For every required school reading there is a perfect Retro Report video to add context. Here are some popular books often assigned by E.L.A/English teachers, and the videos that offer historical background and connections to current events. Team up with a teacher across the hall to enhance your students’ critical thinking skills and content knowledge. […]
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When Art Fuels Anger, Who Should Prevail?
NARRATION: In the late 1980s, 37-year-old Andres Serrano set out to push artistic boundaries. ANDRES SERRANO (ARTIST): I decided there was something new I wanted to investigate – this idea of making photographs that were, in a way, for me, going against the grain of photography. ANDRES SERRANO (DISPLAYING A BOOK OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHY): The works, […]
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As SCOTUS Examines School Prayer, Families Behind a Landmark Ruling Speak Out
TEXT ON SCREEN: THE FIGHT OVER SCHOOL PRAYER JONATHAN ENGEL: In the upper-left hand corner there, that’s my brother Mike. And that’s Dan Roth. It just brings me back to these days. NARRATION: In 1958, Jonathan Engel’s family was living on a quiet tree-lined block in Roslyn Heights, New York, near where his brother attended […]
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The Case of the Missing Park Posters: Ex-Ranger Hunts for New Deal-Era Art
DOUG LEEN (FORMER NATIONAL PARK RANGER): In 1971 I was a ranger in Grand Teton National Park. Once a year, everybody would show up in dirty clothes and we’d just clean up the park after the tourists leave, and I found an old poster in a barn. It piqued my curiosity. It was quite unique. […]