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Show archive for November, 2007
 
 
Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 9:00 pm

This week’s show featured a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Getting to Know the European Union: France and Germany.”
The speakers were Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the United States, and Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States.
The discussion began with an introduction by Ambassador Charles Dunbar, Professor of International Relations [...]

 
 
Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 9:00 pm

This show featured excerpts from a discussion presented by The Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Running the Gauntlet.”
The featured speaker was author Barbara Masin whose book “Gauntlet: Five Friends, 20,000 Enemy Troops, and The Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War” tells the true story of courage and daring against overwhelming [...]

 
 
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 9:00 pm

What is a locavore and where did this strange word come from? A group of women in San Francisco coined the term after they urged neighbors to eat food grown within 100 miles of their homes.
Now, according to the people at the Oxford American Dictionary, locavore is the Word of the Year.
We speak with [...]

 
 
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 9:00 pm

This show featured excerpts from a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Poland.”
The speakers were Janusz Reiter, Polish Ambassador to the United States, and Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
The discussion was apreceded by [...]

 
 
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:00 pm

A new poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC news shows Democrat Hillary Clinton in a virtual dead heat with Republican Rudy Giuliani. John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal discusses the poll and what it means for Clinton and Giuliani as well as presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Barack Obama.
Guests:
John Harwood

 
 
Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 9:00 pm

A personal interpretation of the historic religious figure.