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  • Nicholas Jarecki's directorial debut takes an "appealingly adult" view of New York's elite, according to NPR critic Jeannette Catsoulis. Hedge fund manager Robert Miller (Richard Gere) struggles to maintain his composure when a tragic car accident threatens his gilded life. (Recommended)
  • The second acting-directing-writing effort from How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor explores the relationship between an aimless 35-year-old and an artsy college student (Elizabeth Olsen). Critic Mark Jenkins says the relationship is vexing and mildly painful at best.
  • The unemployment rate dropped last month, but it's not all good news. Some 844,000 people have given up on finding a job for one reason or another. Some have decided to go back to school to train for a new career, but others have simply become too dejected to keep trying.
  • Everyone is blaming everyone else for sequestration and the massive defense cuts it entails. Mitt Romney says it was President Obama's brainchild — that's not true. Paul Ryan, in fact, voted for it and praised it at the time.
  • Negotiators for the Chicago teachers union and the public school system appear closer to a possible contract agreement, but the strike continues for a fifth day.
  • Director Fernando Trueba talks about his Oscar-nominated animated film Chico and Rita, which follows a pair of lovers who leave Havana's music scene in the 1940s to head to New York City. It's now out on DVD.
  • Chinese patrol boats turned back from the disputed Senkaku islands, which Japan nationalized earlier this week despite Beijing's long-running claim of sovereignty.
  • During the Republican debates, Mitt Romney told a moderator "You get to ask the questions you want. I get to give the answers I want." Social psychologist Todd Rogers talks about how likely voters are to notice a subtle dodge. James Fowler joins to discuss whether social media can send more people to the polls.
  • President Obama said that the four Americans had not only embraced the American ideal, they lived it.
  • Ann Romney dishes on a surprise she received several years ago while taking an unofficial tour of the president's place.
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