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AIG Financial Products founder Howard Sosin on why the government needs to assume temporary ownership of failed banks.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on how D.C. lost its mojo.
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Attorney Schaffer talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the system as well as D.A. Robert Morgenthau.
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After earning a J.D. from Harvard Law, Barrett returned to his childhood dream.
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Archer says you can come back as far as you’d like, as long as you’re willing to work for.
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Barack Obama said he’d appoint one. Who would it be?
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Mo Rocca is from that other entertainment capital, Washington, D.C.
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They’d be reasonably proud of the fact that we have maintained a large and robust civil society, but they’d be of two minds about the role the United States plays […]
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The chairman of McCann Erickson never thought she’d end up there.
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Carl Pope sometimes has to remind people that, in the Old West, if you poisoned the well, you’d be strung up.
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“I’d like to think of myself in some ways as a public intellectual.”
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Do people need secrecy and privacy? I’ve just thought that in most cases, especially dealing with social situations, communication would have easily worked. Does secrecy make you feel good? I’d […]
“If I wasn’t doing cooking, I’d probably go to divinity school.”
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If you had the cure for cancer, you’d tell people.
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D.C. is very vulnerable to group think, says Boyd.
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Gioia leans towards interviewing artists whose minds he finds interesting, but figures he’d get tongue tied.
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Nobody ever thought there’d be a rich reporter, Trillin says.
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If you were a democratically inclined Iraqi, you’d be very happy that Saddam Hussein is gone.
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The worst thing that could happen to a Midwesterner, Trillin says, is to have someone tell your mother at the supermarket that you’d gotten too big for your britches.
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Harbison never thought he’d have any interest in doing anything but music.
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I’d like to say that America is gonna dominate the world in the next 100 years, but I don’t think so.
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If we’d had a mandatory military service, Lehrer wonders, would we still have invaded Iraq?
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter got her PhD when there were very few women like her.
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Jim Lehrer explains his lifelong love for the work of J.D. Salinger, and describes what he would ask in a dream interview with the literary legend.
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