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Kennel Hell

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Monday, February 27, 2006

At Martin’s Creek Kennel in Arkansas, dogs were kept in tiny cages, beaten, and starved before being sold for research. Then an amateur filmmaker named Pete went undercover to work there, recording the kennel’s cruel practices for a new HBO documentary, "Dealing Dogs". Also, Monday morning politics with TNR's Peter Beinart, a new study shows Americans have more leisure time and a call-in for tenured professors.

Safe Harbor?

Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic
- on port security and the Supreme Court's upcoming cases

» Peter Beinart archive in The New Rebublic

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A Howlin' Shame

Sarah Teale, filmmaker, "Dealing Dogs"
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Tom Simon, filmmaker "Dealing Dogs"
- on their new HBO documentary investigating the mistreatment of dogs at a kennel that sells to researchers
» Dealing Dogs

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Time Off

Erik Hurst, associate professor of Economics and the John Huizinga Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Graduate School and co-author of the study, "Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of TIme over Five Decades" (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston working paper)
- found Americans have more leisure time ...

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Open Phones

Listeners call in to talk about the resignation of Harvard president Lawrence Summers

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Pet Peeves

Sarah Teale and Tom Simon, Producers of 'Dealing Dogs' from HBO

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