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Kitty Burns Florey on the Rise and Fall of Handwriting

With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting?  Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!

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Paul Stoller on "Stranger in the Village of the Sick"

Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.

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Lila Azam Zanganeh on "My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes"

Lila Azam Zanganeh tells Jim Fleming that Iranian women who supported the Revolution did not expect to lose the rights and freedoms.

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Lee Ernst on Playing John Barrymore

Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.

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Lorrie Moore on "Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary"

Lorrie Moore responds to Hillary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.

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Jeannette Walls on "The Glass Castle"

Jeannette Walls is a famous gossip columnist in New York on MSNBC, but she's the child of hippies who lived a nomadic life in cars and abandoned buildings always one step ahead of their creditors.

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Jon Stewart on Decision 2004

Jon Stewart gives Steve Paulson his take on the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign, and gives good reasons why people should vote for George Bush and for John Kerry.

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Karen Armstrong on "The Spiral Staircase"

Karen Armstrong talks with Anne Strainchamps about her tangled path back to God after leaving the convent.

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