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Friday, December 13, 2002

The slow food movement encourages people to take more time preparing their food and eating it together. We speak with the Mayor of Orvieto, Italy, a "slow-city." Far from being insipid and meaningless, primetime TV dialogue is becoming denser and more dialogue-packed. Also on the show, find out why television producers are lengthening scripts and encouraging actors to talk faster--in the manner of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace, a certificate for real Italian restaurants, and the transit worker leadership, under the microscope.

TWU: Toussaint Wants Understanding

Fred Siegel Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute and professor of history at Cooper Union, on radicalism in Caribbean culture and what Monday’s strike might look like.

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Take The "A" Train…if it's running.

Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor-publisher of the Haitian Times, says Toussaint’s radical leadership is not unique to the Caribbean and describes relations between transit workers and MTA management.

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