Muckraker Robert MacNeil has been bumming the backroads of the Home of the Brave, sampling the soup-to-nuts of American speech. It's a bling bling country, and it contains a bucketful of people bustin’ rhymes.
Trouble in the Sky
Alexandra Marks, correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor, on the airline industry's turbulent financial situation
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Vaughn Cordle Chief Analyst for Airline Forecasts discusses structural problems facing airline industry
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Vaughn Cordle Chief Analyst for Airline Forecasts discusses structural problems facing airline industry
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Listening In
Sarah Kramer, Associate Director of StoryCorps, with more stories from StoryCorps
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Michael Garofalo, StoryCorps facilitator
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Michael Garofalo, StoryCorps facilitator
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Fo Shizzle!
Robert MacNeil, former PBS Newshour anchor and co-author, Do You Speak American? (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005), says America is still teeming with wonderful dialects, accents, and regionalisms
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Digging through The Reject Pile
Jon Friedman Creator, Producer & Curator of The Rejection Show on his show based on rejected comedy material
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Matt Diffee New Yorker Cartoonist, Co-producer, hosts rejected cartoon segment of The Rejection Show
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Matt Diffee New Yorker Cartoonist, Co-producer, hosts rejected cartoon segment of The Rejection Show
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2005: The preview
Everybody is coming out with end of year lists, including Brian Lehrer (click here and scroll to the bottom of the page). Here's ours:
The Brian Lehrer Producers' Predictions for 2005
>Thighs will be the "in" body part and thigh-accentuating hotpants will come back
>Water in wine glasses, wine ...
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