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Actor Denzel Washington and director Carl Franklin have re-teamed for the noirish comedy Out of Time, featuring Washington as a police chief in trouble. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
Lillian Tsang is a Senior Producer on The Conversation. The former KTUH World Music DJ brings her massive CD collection to Classical Pacific for an energizing staff picks session.
After months of negotiations, the Hawaiʻi Nurses’ Association finally ratified a new, three-year contract for hundreds of nurses at the Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children — and the ability to have flexible staffing for nurses has become a point of emphasis for the hospital’s leadership.