Tag: notes and updates
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June 03, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
The White House released a letter today from President Obama to Senators Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, outlining his priorities for health care reform. As Time’s Karen Tumulty points out in a blog . . .
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December 18, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
In today’s first hour , we had a caller named Tom in Burlington, Vermont, who lost his job as a craftsman (builds furniture, entry doors, mantles, stairs, etc.) seven months ago. After spending . . .
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December 18, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
We’re planning a show for this Monday, Dec. 21 (10-11 a.m. ET) on Iran and its global crackdown on dissent. We’ll have two superb Iran watchers with us for the hour: . . .
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December 08, 2009 03:24 PM EST --
Today’s second hour featured critics and an independent bookstore owner dishing on the best books of 2009 . Bibliophile listeners also chimed in with some recommendations for personal . . .
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December 08, 2009 04:00 PM EST --
Mountaineer-turned humanitarian Greg Mortenson joined us today to give his take on President Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan. His perspective has been built brick by brick, over the course . . .
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December 08, 2009 04:00 PM EST --
Today’s second hour featured critics and an independent bookstore owner dishing on the best books of 2009 . Bibliophile listeners also chimed in with some recommendations for personal . . .
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April 30, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
Advertising Poster for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," 1900
One of the great pleasures of pulling together today's show on "Frank Baum's Oz," besides working with the . . .
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November 19, 2009 04:48 PM EST --
We had a rousing -- at times heated — discussion this morning on Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block news content from Google , and what it means about the whole future of news, . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:36 PM EST --
The 2009 National Book Awards were announced in New York last week, and historian T.J. Stiles won for his biography “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.” . . .
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November 25, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
For the Thanksgiving Holiday, On Point will be rebroadcasting a few gems from our archives. To celebrate the day itself, a conversation with longtime Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl about her latest book . . .
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December 08, 2008 11:36 AM EST --
Today’s second hour looks at how the financial crisis is hitting higher education. And as belts tighten , it's perhaps inevitable that executive compensation – the big payouts . . .
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January 21, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
As Tom talked with Linda Bilmes about the “high-wire economic handoff” to the incoming Obama team, it struck me that Tom’s interview with Larry Summers — now Obama’s . . .
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January 29, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
Harvard economist Martin Feldstein was on the show Monday , and he touched off a vigorous response both from callers and in the online comments. Today, he published an op-ed piece in the Washington . . .
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January 29, 2009 02:37 PM EST --
In today’s second hour , Tom talked with filmmaker George Tillman Jr. and scholar Tricia Rose about the legacy of deceased rapper Biggie Smalls and hip-hop, particularly in the . . .
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February 04, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
We’ve had lots of calls and comments from Florida listeners during today’s second hour with George Packer . Some are right in the thick of the foreclosure crisis, like Yves Tony from Lehigh . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
I loved hearing Monica Guzman in today’s hour on the future of news, especially local news . She’s a young reporter at SeattlePI.com , and was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s first . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
I'm a producer here at On Point, and I’m putting together a show for next week, what we call a roundtable, with regular people who have lost jobs in the economic crisis and are now either coping . . .
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April 13, 2009 08:55 AM EDT --
Dominique Moisi
When the incredible Dominique Moisi was here at the On Point studios this week to talk about Europe and the G20 , he showed me the preface of his new book, . . .
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April 13, 2009 08:55 AM EDT --
On the news roundtable today, we began by taking up a thorny topic: What did the G-20 actually produce? And how real is the $1.1 trillion pledge ?
One of our guests, the Financial Times' . . .
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April 13, 2009 08:55 AM EDT --
Fang Xinghai — Director General of Shanghai’s Office for Financial Services, and an important figure in China’s Communist Party — made some strikingly candid assessments of the . . .
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