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Jonathan Ames, MC at Moth
Healthy Debate
Storytelling is not just for fiction writers. The Moth, a New York-based arts club is holding a storytelling event centered on the art of news reporting, hosted by Jonathan Ames. CBS correspondent Randall Pinkston spins some of his media yarns. Plus: a roundup of news from the Middle East, a second look at a study that showed Britons were healthier than Americans and listeners calls on whether the US should have dealings with Hamas.
Stuck in the Middle
Rami Khouri, editor-at-large, the Daily Star, Beirut's English language daily
- on the infighting between Hamas and Fatah, the Israeli PM's US visit, and other events in the Middle East
» The Daily Star
News Stories
Randall Pinkston, New York-based CBS News correspondent
- on storytelling and reporting
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Jonathan Ames, performance artist and MC of the MOTH event, author I Love You More Than You Know (Grove Press, 2006)
- on the art of storytelling
» Randall Pinkston's Bio
» Jonathan Ame's Website
» The Moth
Healthy Debate
Gina Kolata, science and medical reporter for the New York Times and author, Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003)
- on the health differences between the British and Americans
» Gina Kolata's article
A Stateless State
Robert I. Rotberg, Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and editor, Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa (Brookings Institution Press and the World Peace Foundation, 2005 )
- on reports of US intervention in the worsening conflict in Somalia
» Robert Rotberg's bio at Kennedy School of Government
Open Phones
listeners tell us whether the U.S. should have deal directly with the Hamas government in the Palestinian Territories
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