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GOP Candidates Wrangle Over Reagan's Legacy

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President Ronald Reagan rides his horse at his Rancho del Cielo, "Ranch in the Sky," located outside Santa Barbara, Calif., in April 1985.

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Mitt Romney holds a bust of former President Ronald Reagan, presented to him by California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (right) in Fountain Valley, Calif., in 2008.

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Then a congressman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich laughs at a joke told by President Reagan in Atlanta in 1984.

By Brian Naylor

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As he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich almost always works the name of Ronald Reagan into his speeches.

In fact, it's become so common that Gingrich's name-dropping has become an issue itself.

Sometimes Gingrich invokes the name of Ronald Reagan to associate himself with the policies of the former president.

"When I worked with President Reagan, we adopted a lower tax, less regulation, more American energy policy, and it led to 16 million new jobs," Gingrich said at a speech in St. Petersburg, Fla., this week.

3:54 pm

Fri January 27, 2012

Newspoet: Tracy K. Smith Writes The Day In Verse

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Tracy K. Smith poses for a portrait outside of NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 1:40 pm

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Today marks the start of an exciting project at All Things Considered called NewsPoet. Each month we'll be bringing in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's news.

The first poet to participate is Tracy K. Smith. She has received degrees in English and creative writing from Harvard College, Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Her latest book of poems is titled Life on Mars.

2:58 pm

Fri January 27, 2012

Rethinking The Oreo For Chinese Consumers

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Kraft Foods has reinvented the Oreo for Chinese consumers. It's latest offering in China: straw-shaped wafers with vanilla-flavored cream filling.

By Robert Smith

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Everyone knows what an Oreo cookie is supposed to be like. It's round, black and white, and intensely sweet. Has been for 100 years. But sometimes, in order to succeed in the world, even the most iconic product has to adapt.

In China, that meant totally reconsidering what gives an Oreo its Oreoness.

At first, though, Kraft Foods thought that the Chinese would love the Oreo. Who doesn't? They launched the product there in 1996 as a clone of the American version.

1:42 pm

Fri January 27, 2012

Movie Titles That Might Have Been

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'Tonight' Show: Playing an alcoholic, unpopular superhero, Will Smith rouses himself from a park bench pass-out to stare down a curious kid in 2008's Hancock — a movie almost titled Tonight, He Comes.

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'Sheep,' Shorn: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, released in 1982, was based on the Philip K. Dick story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

By Bob Mondello

Originally published on Fri January 27, 2012 4:19 pm

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Shrek, Hitch, Gattaca: What's in a name? Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet — but for Hollywood the question is more like, "Would that rose, by any other name, sell as many tickets?"

1:19 pm

Fri January 27, 2012

Shredding To Metallica, Dancing To 'Jump'

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Daron Rahlves of the U.S. competes during the Men's Freestyle Ski Cross qualification at Cypress Mountain during the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

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