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Nov 26, 2024 | 
klcc.org | Mary Kelly
There are few world leaders who can claim to have worked closely with four U.S. presidents. But Chancellor Angela Merkel can. She is the only woman to ever lead Germany, and her 16-year tenure as chancellor made her one of the longest-serving leaders in the European Union. Raised in Soviet-ruled East Germany, Merkel has said she never felt like the GDR was her home country. She got involved in politics in her 30s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
ensemblemagazine.co.nz | Mary Kelly
As new stats reveal the extent of Aotearoa’s new ‘brain drain’, with a 41% increase in NZers leaving the country, expat Mary Kelly offers an alternative view to the grass is always greener mindset.Within six months of my high school graduation, I was on a one-way flight out of Wellington, heading towards my newer, flashier life in Vancouver, Canada.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kosu.org | Mary Kelly
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to author Glynnis Macnicol about her new memoir, “I’m Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself.”
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
irishamerica.com | Mary Kelly
“I am proud to be a Maasai woman and a Derry girl,“ Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr, the first black person to be mayor anywhere in Northern Ireland, told a cheering crowd in the Guildhall on June 3.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
independentri.com | Mary Kelly
On Saturday, June 1st, The Narrow River Preservation Association held it’s offering of exploration and discovery for young kids. The well-organized event was impressive, thanks to the volunteers doing the mundane tasks to the real fun that began with a skein netting of the close-by shore. One end of the netting was held by a teacher volunteer and the other by a child, the mucky shallows yielded a lot of treasures.
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May 10, 2024 | 
keysweekly.com | Cara Bastone |Susan Patterson |Susan DiLallo |Mary Kelly
Ready or Not By Cara BastoneThe two lines couldn’t have been more clear – Eve is pregnant. The girl who has been a lifelong rule-follower had a one night stand with a sexy bartender and finds herself at a doctor’s office confirming what she already knew. In her 30s and very single, Eve isn’t even certain she wanted children. To add to the turmoil, her best friend Willa, who has been trying to get pregnant for years, finds the news devastating. Of all people, Shep, Willa’s older brother, steps in.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
kwbu.org | Mary Kelly
Salman Rushdie is a writer. A storyteller.
So when you ask him to tell the story of the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture.
He describes lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, overwhelmed with a singular emotion. It wasn't fear, it wasn't pain. It was extreme loneliness.
"I thought, here I am in the middle of upstate New York, almost in Canada, very far from everyone I love. You know, dying, as I thought.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Mary Kelly |Courtney Dorning |Karen Zamora
"The big get." In media lingo, that means the interview with the person at the center of a big story. Think Monica Lewinsky after her affair with then-president Clinton, or the actor Alec Baldwin after the cinematographer was shot and killed on the set of his movie. Or Britain's Prince Andrew after his friend Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges. Interviews like these can entail months of negotiations, calls, emails and meetings to persuade that person to go on the record.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Vincent Acovino |Mary Kelly
Previews and predictions for NCAA men's final fourNPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with TNT Sports sideline reporter and bracketology expert Andy Katz about final four predictions, championship X-factors and indelible moments from this year's bracket.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Karen Zamora |Courtney Dorning |Mary Kelly
The real BBC booker on how she convince Prince Andrew to go on record about EpsteinNPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sam McAlister, who persuaded Prince Andrew to go on record about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It's the subject of new movie: Scoop.
