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Close Encounters With The Third World

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Thursday, December 05, 2002

When Emma McCune came to Sudan in the early 1980s to be an aid worker, she arrived with the intention of easing the suffering of the warring country's population. But when she was killed in a car crash there in 1993, she was deeply in love with her husband, a local warlord who seemed to represent everything Emma was against. Her story exemplifies the interaction between an idealistic West and a troubled Africa. Also on the show: Bill O'Reilly's stock continues to rise as Phil Donohue's falls, and the un-marriage movement.

Jogging the Memory

Joyce Purnick, New York Times “Metro Matters” columnist, on the likelihood of an exoneration of the men convicted in the Central Park jogger case.

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Boston Public

Ed Vacek, professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology and Steven Kurkjian, reporter for the Boston Globe, on the imminent declaration of bankruptcy by the Boston archdiocese.

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Fear of Commitment

Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot, founders of the Alternatives to Marriage Project and authors of "Unmarried to Each Other: the Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple" (Marlowe & Co., 2002) on how you can still have a strong bond without tying the knot.

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The Life of O'Reilly…And the Downfall of Donohue

Alex S. Jones, lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Harvard University Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and former host of On The Media, and Michael Wolff, columnist for “This Media Life” in New York magazine, on why conservative media takes ...

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Ebony and Ivory

Deborah Scroggins, author of Emma's War (Pantheon Books, 2002), on why the West’s idealism and Africa’s woes aren’t in sync

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