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The Leonard Lopate Show / March 04, 2005

The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, March 04, 2005
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  • Black Hole

    Testing Boundaries

    Award-winning journalist Sean Naylor details what went wrong during Operation Anaconda—the 2002 battle in Afghanistan that he argues could have destroyed Al Qaeda and captured Osama bin Laden. Then, Emily Auerbach, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, challenges the common characterizations of Jane Austen as a demure writer hung up on etiquette and 19th century niceties. She argues that the real Jane Austen was confident, clever, and extremely hard-working. In Robert Antoni's latest novel, three childhood friends reconnect in New York City and decide to return home together for the Trinidadian Carnival. Against the backdrop of the festival, the three friends find themselves navigating the boundaries of race, class, and sexuality. And in this week’s Please Explain feature, we enter into the strange territory of black holes, and try to piece together a portrait of these mysterious regions of space.

Operation Anaconda

Journalist Sean Naylor shares his eyewitness account of military failures in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda. He outlines what went wrong in Not a Good Day to Die.

Fateful Festivities

Three childhood friends explore issues of class, race, and sexuality when they return home to Trinidad in Robert Antoni's latest novel, Carnival.

» Read an excerpt of Carnival in the Reading Room.

Events:
Robert Antoni will be reading on:
Friday, March 4th at 7pm
Barnes & Noble, Chelsea
675 Sixth Avenue at 22nd St.

Pride and Prejudice

Emily Auerbach sets the record straight on what Jane Austen was really like—a gifted, committed, and adventurous writer—in Searching for Jane Austen.

Events:
Emily Auerbach will be reading and signing her latest book
Monday, March 7, at 6PM
Coliseum Books
11 W 42nd Street New York, NY
Phone: (212) 803-5890

Inside Black Holes

In this week's Please Explain feature, we focus our energy on black holes. What are they? And how much do we really know about them?

» More on Neil deGrasse Tyson
» More on Michio Kaku
» More on Neil deGrasse Tyson's Origins
» More on the Hayden Planetarium
» More on the American Museum of Natural History
» More on the Rose Center for Earth and Space
» More on the Please Explain series

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?