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Iconic Paris Bookstore Owner George Whitman Dies

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George Whitman, owner and founder of Paris’s Shakespeare and Company bookstore, passed away Thursday.

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Hewlett-Packard names Meg Whitman as CEO

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What would Walt Whitman Say?

Whitman Looks Back

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Whitman Successor

Idaho Governor and former Senator Dirk Kempthorne’s name is at the top of the list to become the new Environmental Protection Agency head. From member station KBSX in Boise, Jyl Hoyt reports the agency and the governor have had a rocky relationship in Idaho.

Whitman Resigns

EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman has tendered her resignation to President Bush. National Journal writer Margie Kriz talks to host Steve Curwood about the move.

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In primaries, Lincoln wins in Arkansas, Whitman wins in California

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For election results from Arkansas and California, Michael Hibblen from KUAR in Little Rock, Ark. reports. In California, Bruce Cain, a professor of political science at U.C. Berkeley, gives analysis.

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The new EPA under the Obama administration

Environment

Currently Lisa Jackson is the Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection, but hopefully next week she will become the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. What lies in store for her in this role?

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Christine Todd Whitman on rehabilitating the GOP

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Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey and ex-chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discusses what it will take to breathe life back into the GOP.