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Aug. 8, 2008: Word for Word: Stephen L. Carter
War is a major issue in the 2008 presidential election. But Yale University law professor and author Stephen Carter says the U.S. has a bigger problem than just withdrawal or escalation of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says the western theory…
Aug. 1, 2008: Word for Word: Lincoln Hall
In 2006, Australian mountain climber Lincoln Hall was left for dead on Mount Everest. Twelve hours later, he was found by a fellow climber, alive and sitting cross-legged on the ridge of the mountain. Lincoln Hall recounts this remarkable tale in…
Jul. 25, 2008: Word for Word: How the rich get richer (David Cay Johnston)
You may have heard there's no such thing as a free lunch, but David Cay Johnston says there is -- and wealthy Americans do get richer because of it. In an April 14, 2008 speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, Johnston, a Pulitzer…
Jul. 18, 2008: Word for Word: The history of insect control
The human battle with bugs has been going on for centuries, but James McWilliams says chemical insecticides came into the picture by accident. McWilliams is a fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University and an associate professor of…
Jul. 11, 2008: Word for Word: "Who Speaks for Islam?"
In a July 1 panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Dalia Mogahed director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and Irshad Manji, author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in her Faith" debated the question: "Who Speaks for…
Word for Word, Friday February 2, 2007: Norman Mailer tells Hitler's story and his own
Norman Mailer is out with a new book on the life of Adolph Hitler. "The Castle in the Forest" is Mailer's first major work of fiction in a decade, and even at 84, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner hopes he still has one more book in him. In a Jan.…
Word for Word, Friday January 26, 2007: Jimmy Carter defends new book on Middle East
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has come under fire recently for his new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." The book has been attacked as unfairly biased against Israel. Carter faced some of his critics at…
Word for Word, Friday January 19, 2007: Williams looks back on 2 years in the anchor chair
ABC used to boast that it was "Where more Americans get their news than from any other source." That's not true anymore. It's a distinction that now belongs to the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Williams talked about his two years in the…
Word for Word, Friday January 12, 2007: Lessons of War?
President Bush has laid out his "new strategy" of sending more U.S. troops to Iraq but comparisons have already been made to an old war -- the one in Vietnam. In a New York Times-sponsored forum on Jan. 6, seasoned war reporters David Halberstam,…
Word for Word, Friday January 5, 2007: Waging war on wages
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., says most Americans haven't seen much benefit from the expanding U.S. economy. On Jan. 3, the day before he officially took over as chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Frank explained what he hopes to…
Word for Word, Friday December 29, 2006: The art of literary humor
Author and former staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine, Ian Frazier, has made a career of honing in on those details that others might easily overlook. Some of his work is memoir, but much of it is actually reporting -- starting with a kernel…
Word for Word, Friday December 22, 2006: A Reporter's Lament and a Call to Arms
Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb says cable TV, the Internet and the pressure to make profit have transformed the media, but not in a good way. Kalb, who spent three decades at CBS and NBC, is now a lecturer at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center…
Word for Word, Friday December 15, 2006: Muhammad Yunus
In 1974, economist Muhammad Yunus had a simple idea for lifting people in his native Bangladesh out of poverty: make tiny loans to help poor people, mostly women, start small businesses. On Dec. 10, Yunus officially received the Nobel Peace Prize…
Word for Word, Friday December 8, 2006: Jonathan Kozol
With the U.S. Supreme Court considering what school districts can and can't do to increase the diversity of their schools, Word for Word this week has a speech from longtime education reformer Jonathan Kozol. His latest book -- "The Shame of the…
Word for Word, Friday December 1, 2006: David Paulison
Hurricane season is now over, but the effort to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency continues. David Paulison, who took the reins of FEMA following the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, outlined his plan to overhaul the agency in a…
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