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Presidential Race
1:00 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

Gingrich's Win, Romney's Taxes And What They Mean

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Sunday he would release his 2010 tax returns on Tuesday. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports Romney is ceding to increased pressure that might have contributed to his loss in South Carolina's Primary. Guy Raz talks with NPR's senior Washington editor Ron Elving about Newt Gingrich's upset in South Carolina's primary and what it means for the GOP race.

Television
12:59 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

'The Bark Side' Tells Of Super Bowl Ads To Come

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The dogs starring in "The Bark Side" were shot individually, then pasted together, says Mark Hunter, Chief Creative Officer at Deutsch LA.
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To produce a teaser for Volkswagen's Super Bowl ad campaign, trainers edited barking dogs into a performance of "The Imperial March" from Star Wars.
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Movie Interviews
12:48 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
12:14 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

Gabrielle Giffords Stepping 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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Remembrances
10:11 am
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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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:05 am

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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