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The main gate at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in Oceanside, CA (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)What Happened at Haditha?
Vanity Fair’s William Langewiesche investigates what happened in Haditha last November—when U.S. Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children. Then, Arnold Steinhardt talks about his lifelong passion for the violin. And Lemony Snicket shares the thirteeth and final installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Plus: we explore how image consultants shape campaigns on Please Explain.
The Haditha Killings
Last November, US Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians—including women and children—in Haditha. In “Rules of Engagement,” Vanity Fair’s William Langewiesche says this kind of violence against civilians is not a complete aberration.
The Church vs. the Mall
Notre Dame economics professor Dan Hungerman on what happens when states and counties repeal blue laws. Hungerman and MIT's Jonathan Gruber have written a paper called "The Church vs. the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?" They found that when states eliminated blue laws (which prohibit the sale on Sunday of liquor and cigarettes), church attendance declined while drinking and drug use increased significantly among young adults.
Arnold Steinhardt's Violin Dreams
In Violin Dreams, Arnold Steinhardt talks about his lifelong passion for the violin, and his forty-year tenure with the Guarneri String Quartet.
Violin Dreams is available for purchase at amazon.com
Events: Arnold Steinhardt will be speaking, playing the violin and signing books
Friday, October 13 at 7 pm
Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble
1972 Broadway, at 66th Street
Lemony Snicket on The End
Lemony Snicket completes his account of the gruesome adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, with the thirteenth and final installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The End is available for purchase at amazon.com
Events: Lemony Snicket will be speaking and singing books with illustrator Brett Helquist
Friday, October 13 at 4 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble
Please Explain: Image Consulting
On today's Please Explain, Trevor Parry-Giles and Susan Estrich uncover how image consultants shape political campaigns. Trevor Parry-Giles is a former political consultant and an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland. Susan Estrich served as Campaign Manager for Michael Dukakis in 1988, and is now the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California.
Do you think image is as important to winning an election as the issues?
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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.
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