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December 22, 2009 09:12 PM EST --
Cami Walker thought her life was over. Then she started giving. And lived again. Better. We’ll hear her story.
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Joining us from Los Angeles is writer Cami Walker . She was diagnosed . . .
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December 24, 2009 12:48 PM EST --
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Jazz, the great American art form, is so great it's been a problem. How do you keep going, changing, . . .
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December 24, 2009 12:48 PM EST --
Toni Morrison (Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
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Originally broadcast: May 28, 2009
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has made American literary . . .
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December 22, 2009 09:12 PM EST --
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The end of a rough decade is here. The New York Times’ Frank Rich and TIME magazine’s Nancy Gibbs join us to look at what we’ve just lived through.
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December 17, 2009 02:40 AM EST --
The polar bear has become the poster child for battling climate change. Does it have a shot at survival?
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Juliet Eilperin , national environmental correspondent for The Washington Post . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:36 PM EST --
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American households are abandoning their telephone landlines across all income brackets. We'll look at what it means for life, business, and telephone communications . . .
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November 17, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
Writer Vladimir Nabokov is shown in Montreux, Switzerland, in Dec. 1976. (AP Photo)
Vladimir Nabokov's last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how . . .
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December 14, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
We'll talk with “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” author Alexander McCall Smith about his latest work, on wartime and music.
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Alexander McCall Smith , bestselling author . . .
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December 15, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. (AP)
Big investment adviser John Mauldin, the "Sage of Dallas," says the U.S. economy . . .
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December 15, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
This video image made available by RAI TG3 shows Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi after an attacker hurled a statuette at him, striking the leader in the face at the end of a rally in Milan, Italy . . .
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December 17, 2009 08:36 PM EST --
A big new biography of Charles Dickens shows how he made art of rough beginnings, and his genius for the hard knock life.
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Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature . . .
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December 20, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
Pro-reform Iranian students march during a protest at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, in a Dec. 7, 2009 file photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained . . .
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December 20, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
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Call her country, call her rock, Lucinda Williams made her name singing about heartache. Now she's found love. We'll check in with her, and her Grammy-nominated . . .
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December 23, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
After 9/11, three men came together — a pastor, a rabbi, and an imam — to learn from each other. They call themselves the Interfaith Amigos. They’re with us.
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The . . .
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December 23, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
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We’ll bring "A Child's Christmas in Wales," by Dylan Thomas, to new life in our studio.
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Joining us in our studio are:
Burgess Clark , playwright . . .
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December 10, 2009 08:12 PM EST --
German director Werner Herzog poses at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September 2009. (AP)
We’ll talk with filmmaker Werner Herzog about a bad lieutenant, a matricidal son – . . .
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December 13, 2009 06:24 PM EST --
Tens of thousands demonstrators took part in a march in the center of Copenhagen on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. (AP)
Deal-making in Copenhagen – by rich, poor and in between. We’ll . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
Demonstrators hold a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration outside the Bella Center, the venue of the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, early Saturday, Dec. 19, . . .
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January 06, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says global sex trafficking is 21st-century slavery — and he wants Barack Obama to abolish it.
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Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner . . .
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September 05, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
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Originally broadcast: June 8, 2009
We were apes before we were humans. But humans were the onetime apes who ultimately mastered fire and cooked.
Primatologist . . .
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