The Brian Lehrer Show

Darfurian women wait for food supplies in Abu Shouk which lies just outside the capital of North Darfur (SALAH OMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

Darfur Deadline

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

As the deadline runs out for a peace treaty in Darfur, world leaders are scrambling for a way to end the genocide. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Harvard professor Samantha Power look at what can be done in the region. Plus: paleontologist Niles Eldridge, the president of Medgar Evers College and listeners call in about political humor.

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Ever Again

Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times
and
Samantha Power, lecturer in Public Policy, founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and author, Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins, 2003)
- on the standstill in the Darfur peace negotitations

» Samantha Power's bio at Kennedy School of Government

Open Phones: Colbert's Comedy

listeners weigh in on Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner

» Watch the video

Children of the Evolution

Niles Eldridge, paleontologist, curator of the Darwin Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
- draws political implications from the exhibition on evolution

» Niles Eldridge bio at the American Museum of Natural History

» more on the Darwin Exhibition

The Men's Room

Edison O. Jackson, president of Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- a conversation about efforts to enroll and retain more black men in college

» Medgar Evers College