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The Leonard Lopate Show / June 14, 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, June 14, 2004
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    Money Troubles

    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.

» More about the book

Events: David Osborne is speaking at an event on Monday, June 14 at 6:00PM, NYU University Life Building, 60 Washington Square, Kimmel Center, room 914.

Music: Jump Start, Wynton Marsalis: #1/10 (Jubilo / Slow Drag)

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 Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time.

» More about the author
» More about the book

Music: Instrumental: #1/2 (Wax Off/Kodo; Knuddelmaus/Ulrich Schnauss)

Events: Greg Behrman will be speaking at the Asia Society on Monday, June 28 at 6:00PM, The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue

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.

» Visit Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s website

Music: Secret Agent, Philip Glass: #9/6 (Explosives/Emigration)

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.

» More about the NY Asian Film Festival
» More about the Anthology Film Archives

Music: It’s My Style, Faye Wong: #1

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?