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The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, June 08, 2006
  • A <em>New Yorker</em> cover from Bruce McCall
    A New Yorker cover from Bruce McCall

    Distance and Perspective

    75 years ago, a white mob lynched two black teenagers in Marion, Indiana. On today’s show, a journalist tells guest host Tony Guida how these murders continue to haunt her hometown. But first, a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Ira Berkow. Plus, New Yorker cartoonist Bruce McCall will be here. And to start it all off, a look at the surprising ways in which gender affects medicine, on Underreported.

Underreported: Gender and Medicine

Until the early 1990s, two-thirds of the research on diseases that affect both men and women was done on men only. But a growing body of evidence shows that men and women react differently to diseases, and to the medicines that treat them. On today's Underreported, we'll examine some of these differences. We're joined by Dr. Marianne Legato, director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, and the author of Eve's Rib and Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget. Dr. Laura Cousino Klein, a co-author of the study "Biobehavioral Responses to Stress in Females: Tend-and-Befriend, Not Fight-or-Flight," is here as well.

Ira Berkow in Full Swing

In Full Swing, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times sports columnist Ira Berkow looks back on his eventful career.

Events: Ira Berkow will be speaking
Monday, June 12 at 7 pm
The American Jewish Historical Society
15 West 16th Street
For tickets, visit ajhs.org or call 917-606-8200

Ira Berkow will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, June 13 at 7 pm
Borders Books and Music
576 Second Avenue at 32nd Street

A Conversation with a Cartoonist

Cartoonist Bruce McCall shares his peculiar brand of offbeat humor, and offers a Canadian perspective on America, in his work for the New Yorker.

A Lynching in the Heartland

On August 7th, 1930, two black teenagers were lynched by a white mob in Marion, Indiana. In Our Town, journalist Cynthia Carr revisits the violence of that night, and investigates the impact the murders had, and still have, on her hometown.

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.

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, 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?