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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Nutter: I never tried to fix a ticket

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The investigation that led to the 2012 child-molestation conviction of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is over, ...

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 Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is shown addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
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Sandusky probe finds no political meddling, but raises questions

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 Republicans are profoundly split these days over foreign policy, as the ongoing Rand Paul-Dick Cheney pugilism shows. (AP file photos)
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