The Brian Lehrer Show

Do You Have What It Takes To Go To Harvard?

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

With tuition surpassing $40,000 a year at many private colleges, some middle-income parents are telling their kids to pay for college themselves. But should a 22-year-old ever graduate with over $100,000 in debt? Also: Iran claims to have joined the nuclear club.

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Iran: We Have Joined the Club

Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief of Al Hayat
and
Arye Mekel, Israeli consul-general in New York
and
David Albright, president of the Institute of Science and International Security and former UN weapons inspector
- on Iran's claim to have enriched uranium

» Dar Al Hayat (Al Hayat's English page)
» The Israeli Consulate in New York
»Biography of David Albright

Fitting the Bill

Ellen Frishberg, director of student financial services at Johns Hopkins University
and
Janet Bodnar, deputy editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, writes the column "Money Smart Kids" and author, Raising Money Smart Kids (Kaplan, 2005)
- discuss why parents are trying to get their kids to pay for college

» Johns Hopkins admissions
»"Money Smart Kids" by Janet Bodnar

ABC to Affiliates, "Get Lost"

Steve Safran, managing editor of Lost Remote, a blog about the TV business, also a digital media consultant and director of digital media at New England Cable News in Boston
- the impact of Disney's move to streams shows online

» Lost Remote