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The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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    The Budget Crisis and You

    Experts tell you what you should know about America’s federal budget crisis...and how it’ll affect your personal finances. Also: how the medical text Gray’s Anatomy changed the field of medicine. And Robert Bennett, the lawyer who defended Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones case, Judith Miller and some other controversial defendants.

A Guided Tour of the Federal Budget Crisis

Find out everything you need to know about the looming federal debt crisis…and how it could affect your own personal finances. Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda Online are co-authors of Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis.

Public Agenda Online’s website

Gray’s Anatomy - The Medical Textbook, Not the TV Show

Gray’s Anatomy has set the standard for medical textbooks for the past 150 years. Bill Hayes’s new book about how Gray’s Anatomy changed the field of medicine is The Anatomist.

Event: Bill Hayes will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, February 19 at 7 pm
192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue (at 21st Street)

Orphan Films

Every other year, film archivists from around the world gather to present "orphan films" - unusual movies of unknown origins. Dan Streible is founder and curator of the Orphan Film Symposium, showing at the IFC Center as part of the "Stranger Than Fiction" series. The full Orphan Film Symposium will be held at NYU March 26-29; more information is available here.

Event: Best of Orphan Film Symposium
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 pm
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue (at West 3rd Street)
To purchase tickets, go here.

Superlawyer Robert Bennett

Lawyer Robert Bennett has represented some important people in difficult situations: Judith Miller; Paul Wolfowitz; Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones scandal. His new memoir is In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer.

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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?

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May 14, 2009
Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.

Video Pick: Elizabeth Edwards

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Elizabeth Edwards discusses how to best cope with lifes difficulties in her book Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities.

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James Beard

Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award

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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.

Leonard is on Facebook

Now Leonard is on Facebook! We’re posting photos, status updates, links to notable interviews, and lots more. Check it out.

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?