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The Leonard Lopate Show / October 30, 2003

The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, October 30, 2003
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    Understanding Evil

    Today starts out with open phones - Leonard asks listeners to share their thoughts on whether or not "evil" is a useful word, particularly in today's current political climate. Then scholars David Kang and Victor Cha evaluate the U.S. approach to dealing with nuclear North Korea. Chess enthusiast J.C. Hallman investigates the international chess subculture. And Anne Rice shares Blood Chronicles, the latest in the Vampire Lestat saga.

Evil Talk

It's open phones. Leonard talks with listeners about the nature of evil.

  • Music: Blink Soundtrack music by Brad Fiedel

    • Victor Cha and David Kang

    Professors Victor Cha and David Kang, top experts on Korean politics, assess the magnitude of the nuclear threat from North Korea and the U.S.’s approach to dealing with the threat. Their new book is Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies.

  • Events: Victor Cha and David Kang will host a panel discussion:
    Thursday Oct 30th at 4 pm
    Weatherhead East Asia Institute
    Columbia University
    420 West 118th St
  • Music: Zero Seven “Destiny” Euphone “Fallout”

    • J.C. Hallman

    Chess: more than just a game?? J.C. Hallman says it “represent[s] intimacy, economics, politics, theories bleeding from rhetoric to outrageous science." His book is The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game.

  • Music: Naqoyqatsi Soundtrack composer Philip Glass

    • Anne Rice

    Anne Rice continues her Vampire Chronicles with Blood Canticles. This latest has Vampire Lestat struggling with his vampirism and yearning for goodness, purity, and love.

  • Events:Anne Rice will be reading and signing books at Barnes and Noble, Astor Place, Thursday Oct 30 at 6:00pm
    Saturday November 1st, 4 Book Review, Huntington, 4pm
  • Music: Fog Lake composer George R. Nelson

    • Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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    New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

    (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedkerwin/">tedkerwin</a>/flickr)

    Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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    NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

    Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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    Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

    Barack Obama

    Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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    Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

    Guest Picks

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    Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?