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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Music: It’s My Style, Faye Wong: #1
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National Book Award Winners
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Please Explain: Eco-Labels
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Your broccoli, shampoo, and air conditioner might bear labels declaring them to be organic, cruelty-free, or energy efficient, but what do those labels mean and are they true? Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Project Director for Consumer Reports' GreenerChoices.org and Consumers Union’s Senior Scientist for Policy Initiatives, and Dara O'Rourke, founder and CEO of GoodGuide.com, took a look at what eco-labels indicate, how standards are set, and what they mean for consumers and manufacturers around the world.
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
