The Leonard Lopate Show

Open Phones: Electronic Voting

As part of our 2006 campaign coverage, we’ve been asking listeners to give us their opinions on different topics related to the election. This week, we ask how confident are you that your vote will be counted on November 7th? Do you think electronic voting machines are more accurate than other methods? Tell us your opinion.

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Fighting Child Soldier Recruitment in Court

Thousands of child soldiers have been conscripted in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Fatou Bensouda, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, talks about the first-ever trials of those accused of recruiting child soldiers.

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Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Farah Jasmine Griffin and Carla Kaplan, both Fellows at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, discuss the role women—both black and white—played in the Harlem Renaissance. Farah Jasmine Griffin is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University. Carla Kaplan is a Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.

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Backstory: Ban Ki-Moon

Ban Ki-Moon is the new Secretary General-elect of the United Nations. On today’s Backstory, Diana Geddes, the Legal Affairs Editor for The Economist, examines his long career in South Korean international relations, and talks about what his selection means for ongoing reform initiatives at the UN.

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How a Refugee Sees Sudan

Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng (one of Sudan's Lost Boys) tell us about collaborating on the autobiographical novel What is the What.

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