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Friday, April 23, 2004
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  • Jean Dominique
    Jean Dominique

    Haiti's Hero

    Jean Dominique was a determined fighter of poverty, injustice, and oppression in Haiti. Filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s latest, "The Agronomist,", is a cinematic portrait of the slain Haitian national hero, and he’s here with Michele Montas, Dominique’s widow and a journalist herself, to talk about Dominique’s unsolved murder. Then, a discussion with Ian Buruma on the phenomenon of Occidentalism and how Asians, Russians, and Middle Easterners perceive the West. And Cheryl Reed takes an inside look at the lives of modern North American nuns.

Jonathan Demme and Michele Montas

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s "The Agronomist" is about Jean Dominique, Haitian national hero, journalist, and human rights activist. Demme is joined by journalist Michele Montas, the widow of Jean Dominique.

» Visit the film's website

Music: Die Hard With a Vengeance #4,7

Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma is co-author with Avishai Margalit of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies. Buruma’s previous books include Inventing Japan, Anglomania, and Bad Elements.

Cheryl Reed

Cheryl Reed, a non-Catholic, is the author of Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns. She interviewed more than 300 nuns from a wide variety of orders, from self-flogging nuns who barely speak, to those who work in homeless shelters and as prison chaplains.

» More on the book

Music: Darkness Into Light: #2/1 Anonymous 4. Chilingirian Quartet

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.

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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?