Tag: notes and updates
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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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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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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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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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October 27, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
Our show today about the life and times of Thelonious Monk had us peering into the jazz world to look for the children of the “George Washington of bebop.” Who are . . .
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October 30, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
Earlier this week we discussed Asia, America, and higher ed , and we asked whether the boom in funding for Asia's universities – billions and billions pouring in – would leave U.S. . . .
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November 02, 2009 05:00 PM EST --
On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it's a very special show! The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th . . .
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November 09, 2009 04:12 PM EST --
Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.
It was part of an MIT . . .
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October 24, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
On Monday, a week and a day before the election, we’re going to look at the still swirling controversy over the integrity of the vote, from the right and the left. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will join . . .
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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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