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The road to any big event, be it a family reunion, a graduation, or the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, is often pockmarked with screw-ups, flubs, and insensitive oversights. Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish catalog a few of the gaffes leading up to the London games, including torch flame-outs, missing hurdles, and the resurrection of the apartheid-era South African anthem.

The good news for investors followed a painful week of huge drops.

The Senate version of the bill aims to do away with direct payments to farmers by expanding crop insurance programs. Some Georgia farmers say that will favor Midwestern farmers and leave those in the South without a safety net.

The singer-songwriter, whose new album ends a seven-year hiatus, says her career arc is far less calculated than it looks. "I got a lot of problems," she says, "but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create."

The Supreme Court may issue a ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act as early as Monday. Guy Raz talks to NPR Health Policy Correspondent Julie Rovner about what will happen next if the court rules against the law. In Oregon, Rocky King, the state's health insurance exchange director, says the imminent decision keeps him up at night and historian Jeff Shesol explains why there hasn't been a ruling this important since the 1930s.

Abraham Lincoln famously put together a "team of rivals" for his Cabinet after the 1860 presidential election. And when Barack Obama stepped into the presidency in 2008, he vowed to do the same. But has his Cabinet really lived up to that? Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair's national editor, offers his insight.

Spain's boring, safe, small banks went wild. Now the bill has come due.

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Friday, June 15>>>Archie Fisher at the Elysium Arts Folk Club ~ Rollinsford, NH ~ 8pm ~ www.elysiumarts.com 603-743-4700>>>Dave Bromberg Quartet at the…

Some 338 people have been infected with whooping cough in Oregon this year. But that's just a small fraction of the number of cases the state of Washington is reporting. Health experts say the booster shot is not 100 percent effective at preventing the disease, but people who have it are far less likely to get sick.