The writer and social critic Lawrence Weschler specializes in drawing unexpected connections. In “Vermeer in Bosnia” he takes time off from the war crimes trials in the Hague to visit a collection by the Dutch master, whose domestic scenes give little hint of the destruction the Thirty Year’s War had only recently wrought upon Holland.
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» See Vermeer’s View of Delft
Farewell George (Tenet, that is)
Robert Baer former CIA field officer, and author Sleeping With The Devil (Crown, forthcoming)considers the apportionment of blame in America's intelligence failures on Iraq
Maine Street
Gov. John Baldacci Governor of Maine (Democrat)discusses his new economic initiative named Pine Tree Zones
Life is a Comedy, Life is a Tragedy
Lawrence Weschler Director of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU, staff writer at The New Yorker, regular contributor to McSweeney's, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, NPR and author, Vermeer In Bosnia (Pantheon Books, 2004)discusses his travels through Bosnia covering the war and the peace
Lay's Ways
Chris Schmidt Senior Writer, US News and World Report discusses the indictment of Kenneth Lay and the release of the charges against him
Lay it on the Line
Inspired by the footage of the former Enron chief being led away in handcuffs, many listeners called wondering where Kenneth Lay, if convicted, would serve his time - as one put it "in a hardcore prison or a federal Marriott?" (apologies to the hotel chain). One caller ...
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