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Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue.

Commentator Jonetta Rose Barris says that many historically black colleges and universities are in financial trouble because, she says, the black middle class is not supporting their Alma Maters.

Harbaugh celebrates his first college football championship by going back to the NFL. He's headed to LA to coach the Chargers. He said he'll always be a loyal Wolverine to his Ann Arbor alma mater.

Daniel Woodrell's new novel explores the lingering consequences of an explosion in an Ozarks dance hall that kills 42 people. It wasn't an accident, but the book isn't about a hunt for the murderer. Instead, reviewer Ellah Allfrey says, it's a remarkable study of a surviving sister's life and grief.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on a controversial piece of art in Boston Harbor- a liquid natural gas tank adorned with large rainbow stripes. Many people claim that a face is visible in one of the stripes, and there have been "sightings" of everyone from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden since the painting was completed in the early 1970's.

The pope was a young priest during his nation's "Dirty War." Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto talks with NPR's Scott Simon about Francis' controversial history and her article "Francis's Holy War."

Over the weekend, people in Lewisburg, Pa., gathered for a weather forecast from caterpillars. Woolly bear caterpillars are black, with a brown stripe down the middle. Folklore says the larger the stripe, the milder the winter.

Dan Stevens stars as the android of Maren Eggert's dreams in the German romantic comedy "I'm Your Man."

The memoir Eat, Pray, Love turned author Elizabeth Gilbert into a phenomenon. Now, she turns again to fiction with The Signature of All Things, a novel that reviewer Lizzie Skurnick calls "one of the best of the year."