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Suburban Sweatshops
Sweatshops aren't just in cities and developing countries. Today, we'll investigate suburban sweatshops in places like Long Island. Then, one of France's best dramatists, Jean-Claude Carriere, looks into 16th c. Catholic church morals in his new play, The Controversy of Valladolid. New York musician Butch Morris explains his ambitious new project - he's conducting different ensembles every day of the week for the entire month of February. And we'll find out how a group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors may have been seriously cheated by the U.S. government.
Holy Wars
Jean-Claude Carriere is a French screenwriter, dramatist, and iconoclast who's collaborated with the likes of Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard. Now he's brought his award-winning play, The Controversy of Valladolid, to the Public Theatre. It's about the debate in the 16th century Vatican over the legal and moral status of ...
Conduction
Butch Morris is a great innovator in jazz, new music, improvisation, and contemporary classical music. He'll be conducting ensembles every single night during Black February 2005. It's his celebration of 20 years of Conduction, a musical and improvisational art that he's developed.
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Top-Level Looting
A class action suit has been filed against the United States on behalf of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. The suit claims that the US Army confiscated the plaintiffs' personal property during WWII, and never returned it to its rightful owners! Leonard talks to Michael Waldman, an attorney working on the case. ...
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