The 2004 budget deficit will be the highest in U.S. history; tax increases, accounting tricks, and quick fixes won’t be enough to take care of the problem. Political consultant David Osborne has some better ideas. Then, a look at the American response to the global AIDS crisis. Plus math professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb examines the concept of randomness - is Russian roulette really as random as it seems? And Grady Hendrix and Daniel Eagan talk about the latest and greatest films from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and Thailand.
David Osborne
David Osborne, senior partner of the Public Strategies Group, thinks that the current fiscal situation calls for a dramatically different approach to budget-fixing. His new book, co-authored with Peter Hutchinson, is The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis.
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Greg Behrman
More than 40 million people are currently infected with HIV and 8,500 die of AIDS each day. Greg Behrman looks at the role of the United States in the fight against AIDS in his book The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. Taleb is a math professor and a hedge fund manager.
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Daniel Eagan and Grady Hendrix
Daniel Eagan is a film critic for Film Journal International. Grady Hendrix is an Asian film enthusiast as well as the founder of Subway Cinema, which is sponsoring the New York Asian Film Festival. Screenings are at the Anthology Film Archives.
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