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Spring training is in full swing. Who will be the best baseball teams and players in 2008? Also: actors Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson on their new film, "Married Life." The fascinating life of the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. And on Underreported: why Cyprus may now have a better chance of reunification.
Baseball 2008
Baseball spring training is in full swing. Who will be the best teams and players of 2008? Steven Goldman and Joe Sheehan, editors of Baseball Prospectus, join us to make predictions.
Events: Steven Goldman, Joe Sheehan, and other Baseball Prospectus writers will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, March 6 at 6 pm
Barnes & Noble
105 Fifth Avenue (at 18th Street)
Joe Sheehan and other Baseball Prospectus writers will be speaking and signing books
Saturday, March 8 at 2 pm
Westbury Borders
1260 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY
Weigh in: Who do you think are the teams and players to watch in 2008?
Married Life
Actors Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson co-star in the new film "Married Life." It’s a dark comedy about a 1940s man who falls for a younger woman but still loves his wife. It opens Friday, March 7, at the Landmark Sunshine (143 East Houston Street) and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
Underreported: Reunification for Cyprus?
The island of Cyprus has been split between its Greek and Turkish populations for more than 30 years. Now with the recent election of a Marxist president, Demetris Christofias, in the Republic of Cyprus (the Greek half of the island) – the island may be a few steps closer to reunification. Dr. James Ker-Lindsay is a Cyprus expert and Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University London.
The Great Adventures of Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Biographer Tim Jeal sorts out the legend from the truth in his new biographer of the great explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). His new book is Stanley.
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