How has English become Globish?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
Po Bronson talks with Steve Paulson about some of the families he met who managed to keep their families intact, despite hard times.
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.
Penelope Fitzgerald is considered one of the great British novelists of the last half-century. Remarkably, she didn't begin writing until she was nearly 60 - and that's partly what attracted biographer Hermione Lee.
Children’s author Katherine Paterson tells Steve Paulson that too many people deny the emotional reality of childhood. Her books are popular because she recognizes the fears children face.
Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and teaches at Princeton. His latest book is "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."
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