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The president built an image of "hope," "change" and "Yes We Can" on the road to the White House. And aides credit that brand with advances overseas. But that has not yet translated to strong approval ratings and longtime loyalty at home.

Are for-profit colleges taking low-income students to the cleaners or helping them improve their lives? That question found its way to a Senate hearing on Thursday. One whistle-blower testified that schools mislead students about job prospects.

Everywhere he turned on a recent trip to Turkey, Bob Mondello spotted an oddly familiar face: President Faux-bama. Turns out it was all due to one bold Turkish bank — and its singular stimulus package.

Five Lebanese prisoners and the bodies of almost 200 others held in Israel are being turned over to Lebanon in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured in a Hezbollah raid in 2006.

Airs Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Zombies, Plastics, and Scruffy Nerfherders

Airs Wednesday, May 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Morrissey, former front man for The Smiths, plays at the Embarcadero and southern songstress Lucinda Williams plays Humphreys. A new version of Carmen hits the stages of the La Jolla Playhouse and the

"Self (the remix)" is a spoken-word, hip-hop play that mixes together stories, movement and music to tell the tale of an American child of Iranian and Guatemalan immigrants growing up in California in the 1970s and 80s in the shadow of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Acclaimed playwright and performer Robert Farid Karimi, accompanied with a soundscape created by Filipino DJ D Double, tells a "remixed" autobiographical tale of a boy struggling to learn about manhood, nationhood, and neighborhood with the voices and music of his environment helping him along.