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Forum Network Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe and strategist David Axelrod,
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, and pollster Bill McInturff discuss
the day-to-day management and overall strategies of the 2008
presidential election campaigns

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Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe and strategist David Axelrod, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, and pollster Bill McInturff discuss the day-
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Forum Network Attention Foodies and Restauranteurs! -Listen to three food writers discuss their craft -James Beard Award-winning superstar chef-owner, Barbara Lynch runs seven
Boston restaurants including No. 9 Park and B&G Oysters, and Boston Globe Food editor Sheryl Julian who trained at the Cordon Bleu and is the editor of The New Boston Globe Cookbook.

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Three food writers discuss their craft. James Beard Award-winning superstar chef-owner Barbara Lynch runs seven Boston restaurants including No.
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Forum Network Check out this new interview with John Hodgman from the Boston Book Festival a few weeks ago. (You know him, he's the pc guy in the apple ads with Justin Long!!) - Tom Perrotta grills (or perhaps roasts, as on a slow-burning fire) the
man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania on topics ranging from the
sublime to the downright silly.

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Tom Perrotta grills (or perhaps roasts, as on a slow-burning fire) the man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania on topics ranging from the subl
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Forum Network Dr. Li Hua, (acupuncturist and Shen specialist) shares insight on traditional Chinese medicine and how it
works with Shen's spiritual aspects, in order to bring about health and
energy alignment within the mind, body, and spirit.

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Forum Network Looking for a new book to read? How about, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth? Author and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou discusses his new
graphic novel-ized biography of the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.

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Author and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou discusses his new graphic novel-ized biography of the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russel
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Forum Network Watch a tribute to the fallen heroes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with Ted Kennedy in 2007

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Ted Kennedy pays tribute to the fallen heroes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Forum Network Sociology professor Carr discusses how young, educated adults are moving out of rural areas toward urban and academic centers. Through a case study he helps us to better understand this phenomenon, and offers strategies for creating sustainable, thriving communities across the Heartland.

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Sociology professor Patrick J. Carr discusses Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means For America.
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Forum Network All New Boston Book Festival Talks now available - John Hodgman, Michael Porter, David Pogue....and many more! Watch or Download now.

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Forum Network Happy Birthday Sesame Street! Michael Davis takes us behind the scenes of the innovative and definitive children's TV show on PBS

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Michael Davis takes us behind the scenes of the innovative and definitive children's TV show on PBS and PBA-30, Sesame Street.
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Sesame Street celebrates its 40th birthday on Tuesday, Nov. 10, when it kicks off a brand new season — with an all-new look and format and a visit from First Lady Michelle Obama. Check your local PBS listings for show times and tune in.
November 9 at 9:14am
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Forum Network With unstinting candor, Orbinski explores the nature of humanitarian action in the 21st century, and asserts the fundamental imperative of seeing as human those whose political systems have most brutally failed.

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Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.
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All new October Lectures now posted - A hillarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and
immortality. That is, Death. Philosophers have been wrestling with the meaning of
death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life.
Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with t...he major thinkers
by creating gags about dying. Death's funny that way--it gets
everybody's attention.
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Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein discuss Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life,
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Forum Network Could positive thinking really be hurting our country? This discussion pokes holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ends with a call for existential clarity and courage. Hear Ehreneich's thoughts and let us know what you think!

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Journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich explains the perils of the Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Under
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Oct. 2009- More than one
billion people still live on less than one dollar a day. Poverty is the
worst human-rights crisis in the world today, denying billions of
people their most basic rights. In a bracing argument enriched by compelling photographs from across the
world, Irene Khan makes the case that poverty remains a ...global epidemic
because we continue to define it as an economic problem whose only
solution is foreign aid and investment.
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Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan discusses her new book The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights.
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Joel - I think you might like this one, maybe even agree with it?
November 4 at 1:36pm
Joel
Joel
this is a good one...
November 5 at 3:47am
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Forum Network Oct. 2009 - The Tyranny of E-mail. What toll is our current information-saturated lifestyle taking on us
as individuals and as a society? John Freeman, writer and book reviewer pleas for
communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more
sociable.

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Freelance book reviewer John Freeman warns us about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year-Journey to Your Inbox.
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Forum Network Is the No Child Left Behind Act causing the change the United States was hoping for? In 2004 Prominent educators wrote and discussed their book "Many Children Left Behind" and how the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging children and schools. In 2009 the success of this Act is still being debated.

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Prominent educators discuss their new book Many Children Left Behind and how the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging children and schools.
Joel
Joel
it is interesting that no one has made the connection between the slogan no child left behind and the military slogan no man left behind...i believe it is working according to its intended plan of forcing certain our youth to choose the military as an option
November 3 at 3:03pm