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December 01, 2009 10:36 PM EST --
Tony Hawk, in Los Angeles, June 2009. (AP)
A conversation with Tony Hawk, skateboarding legend, on navigating life's toughest turns.
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Tony Hawk , former professional skateboarder. . . .
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December 01, 2009 10:36 PM EST --
President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP)
The president’s speech on Afghanistan. President Obama . . .
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November 30, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
How one hedge fund manager bet huge against American housing and made billions. We'll get the inside story.
Guests:
Gregory Zuckerman covers hedge funds and investing for The Wall Street . . .
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November 30, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
President Barack Obama and his national security team listen to a presentation from Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, during a briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation . . .
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November 29, 2009 10:00 PM EST --
Job seekers attend a job fair in Livonia, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP)
The president calls a jobs summit. Millions of Americans out of work. We’ll look at the options now for taking . . .
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November 29, 2009 10:00 PM EST --
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow makes the trip around the Swamp greeting fans for the last time after Florida defeated Florida State in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. (AP)
We’ll . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
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Originally broadcast: May 6, 2009
Bob Dylan, almost 68 now, is America's grand old man of … what? Folk? Rock? Touring honky tonk? Everything?
He's out with . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:36 PM EST --
The 2009 National Book Awards were announced in New York last week, and historian T.J. Stiles won for his biography “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.” . . .
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November 24, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
From the Bible to Proust to everyday life, we’ll look at the anthropology of thankfulness, of gratitude.
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Margaret Visser , author of “The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and . . .
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November 25, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
For the Thanksgiving Holiday, On Point will be rebroadcasting a few gems from our archives. To celebrate the day itself, a conversation with longtime Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl about her latest book . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
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Originally broadcast: Dec. 22, 2008
In the age of video games, cell phone texting, and the instant message, the idea that books shape a nation may seem like a stretch. . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
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Originally broadcast: Nov. 24, 2008
The American circus has a long history, and Paul Binder has lived a colorful chapter of it. For three decades he's been . . .
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April 30, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
Advertising Poster for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," 1900
One of the great pleasures of pulling together today's show on "Frank Baum's Oz," besides working with the . . .
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June 02, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande went to McAllen, Texas, one of the priciest healthcare markets in America, to ask why. He found lessons for us all. Atul Gawande is a surgeon and writer. He’s on the . . .
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June 03, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
The White House released a letter today from President Obama to Senators Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, outlining his priorities for health care reform. As Time’s Karen Tumulty points out in a blog . . .
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September 20, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
A page from Carl Jung's "Red Book," 1914-1930, to be published next month. (Courtesy of W.W. Norton)
De-coding Carl Jung. The secret diary of Jung’s own psychic travels goes public. We’ll . . .
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November 17, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
Writer Vladimir Nabokov is shown in Montreux, Switzerland, in Dec. 1976. (AP Photo)
Vladimir Nabokov's last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how . . .
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November 19, 2009 04:48 PM EST --
We had a rousing -- at times heated — discussion this morning on Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block news content from Google , and what it means about the whole future of news, . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:24 PM EST --
We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.
Guests:
Tim Westergren , founder and chief strategy officer . . .
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November 22, 2009 06:00 PM EST --
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) lifts a copy of the Democratic health care reform bill on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill. Democrats united to push health care legislation . . .
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