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The Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, July 11, 2005
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    At Risk

    Jeffrey Sachs details his plan to end extreme poverty throughout the world in 20 years. Then, as part of our Summer Reading Series, translator Gregory Rabassa (who translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude) looks at the work of the 19th Century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Next, Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service, tells us about writing her first novel, the spy thriller At Risk. Finally, Simon Singh explores the origin of the universe in his latest work: Big Bang.

Economic Possibilities

Economist Jeffrey Sachs draws on 25 years worth of work to outline a plan for battling extreme poverty throughout the world: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

» More on Jeffrey Sachs and The End of Poverty

Music: Soundtrack to Cobb, music by Elliot Goldenthal: "Hart and Hunter" / "Cobb Dies"

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Summer Reading Series: Machado de Assis

In this week’s edition of our Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature, Gregory Rabassa joins me for a look at the author Machado de Assis. Born in 1839 in Rio de Janiero, he’s widely considered to be the father of Brazilian literature. Mr. Rabassa, who is probably best-known for his translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, claims that it wasn’t until he worked on two of Machado de Assis’s novels that he felt “fulfillment as a translator.”

» Summer Reading Series

Events:
Gregory Rabassa will talk and read from his memoir, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, on:
Wednesday, July 13th at 6pm
Consulate General of Brazil
1185 Avenue of the Americas (between 46th and 47th Streets)
21st Floor

Music: Soundtrack to Hanging Up, music by David Hirschfelder: “Conference Call”

True Spies

We’ll find out how Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service, uses her years of intelligence work to lend credence to her first novel, the spy thriller At Risk.

Music: Soundtrack to The General's Daughter, music by Carter Burwell: "Exercise in Darkness" / "West Point"

Start at the Very Beginning

Simon Singh investigates the beginning of the universe: Big Bang.

Music: Soundtrack to Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, music by Philip Glass: "Primacy of Number" / "Massman"

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

The Leonard Lopate Show

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.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to 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.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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?

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