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2007-2008 SEASON PREVIEW:
TALKS, INTERVIEWS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS |
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| LARRY DAVID, ALAN GREENSPAN AND ANDREA MITCHELL, TIM ROBBINS, STEVE MARTIN, CLARENCE THOMAS AND DOZENS MORE AT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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| New York, NY, August, 1, 2007—What are Larry David, Tommy Lasorda, Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell, Tim Robbins, Clarence Thomas, Michael Palin, Geraldine Ferraro, Steve Martin, Ani DiFranco, Bob Woodruff, Tom Brokaw, James Watson and Eric Kandel doing this fall? They're all speaking at the 92nd Street Y. Starting in September, the Y offers a season packed with speakers both high-powered and hilarious, Nobel winners and Grammy winners, cultural icons and politicians, artists, business leaders, writers, scientists, journalists, a world chess champion and a tennis star. Below are some of the highlights of the season, grouped by category: politics; culture and society; business; entertainment and comedy; and science. Please be aware that this is a skeletal overview of the season; complete listings will go out each month. |
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| POLITICS AT HOME AND ABROAD |
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September 11, 8 pm - Has the Bush administration hijacked truth in its pursuit of winning politics? New York Times op-ed columnist FRANK RICH discusses the place of truth in the public arena with Times editorial page editor ANDREW ROSENTHAL.
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September 16, 7:30 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning author LAWRENCE WRIGHT joins global affairs professor RALPH BUULTJENS in a discussion of the changing nature of Al Qaeda.
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September 19, 8 pm - We'll never know how our country might have been different had MARIO CUOMO run for president. But we can hear what's on his mind as the 2008 election year is about to take off.
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October 7, 7:30 pm - When GERALDINE FERRARO became Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984, women felt they'd taken a big step towards political power. 23 years later, we still haven't had a female vice president, but we may be well on our way to a female president. Ferraro discusses why we need a woman in the White House.
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October 8, 8:15 pm - American-born CAROLYN GLICK, a managing editor at the Jerusalem Post, discusses Israel's position in the Middle East and its special role in the fight against global terrorism.
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October 9, 8 pm - From the firing of U.S. attorneys to wiretaps without warrants, the Bush administration has pushed the envelope when it comes to using executive-branch power; some accuse him of abusing that power. How do we know when federal or executive power is being abused, and what can we do about it? How do we recognize when the checks and balances of our government are not working properly? AZIZ Z. HUQ has a book out on the topic, and he discusses it with Newsweek managing editor JON MEACHAM.
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October 10, 8 pm - Recovered from the roadside bomb in Iraq which severely wounded him in 2006, BOB WOODRUFF discusses important global issues, including the war in Iraq, with the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, JAMES F. HOGE.
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October 14, 7:30 pm - If you've been keeping only half an eye on the presidential campaign because the actual voting still seems far off, you might want to start catching up, as the Iowa caucuses are around the corner. Get up to speed on a thickly-crowded candidate field and a host of knotty issues with veteran political journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor DAN RATHER. Joining him will be the colorful JAMES CARVILLE, a Democratic consultant who worked closely with Bill Clinton, and possibly another guest, still to be determined.
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October 16, 8 pm - Supreme Court Justice CLARENCE THOMAS has long been a controversial figure, and his vote with the majority in the Supreme Court's decision that two school integration plans were unconstitutional provoked renewed debate. His new memoir, My Grandfather's Son, sheds light on his own experiences with race and education. He talks with JAN CRAWFORD GREENBERG, who covers the Supreme Court for ABC News.
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January 10, 8:15 pm - NORMAN PODHORETZ believes a strong stand and pre-emptive action are necessary if the west is going to defeat global terrorism and Islamic extremism. Find out why he sees this battle as World War IV (and what World War III was).
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January 16, 8 pm - Middle East expert FOUAD AJAMI discusses the latest developments in the Middle East with Foreign Affairs editor with JAMES F. HOGE.
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February 27, 8 pm - BILL MOYERS brings a lifetime of work, learning and reflection to a new book and a discussion of democracy.
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March 2, 7:30 pm - JEFF GREENFIELD inaugurates another series of discussions on politics and society.
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| CULTURE AND SOCIETY |
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September 17, 8:15 pm - Forced as a child into fighting in Sierra Leone's bloody civil war, ISHMAEL BEAH has heightened awareness of the impact of war on children with his bestselling memoir, A Long Way Gone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) and his work for Human Rights Watch. He discusses children caught up in conflict with DR. GAIL SALTZ.
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September 23, 7:30 pm - Robert Altman blazed across conventional Hollywood style and created movies that reflected the quirks, trials, humor and messiness of real life. The talented people who worked with him discuss his impact and brilliance in a tribute to Altman and his work. Hear from TIM ROBBINS, BOB BALABAN and others.
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September 25, 8 pm - Tennis star JAMES BLAKE fought injury, disease and grief to return to Center Court. He discusses how he overcame a series of traumas through physical grit and emotional strength.
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October 7, 7:30 pm - The founder of the Burning Man Festival, LARRY HARVEY, discusses art festivals and public art with BARBARA EHRENREICH, author of Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Metropolitan, 2007) and ANNE PASTERNAK, the executive director of Creative Time Inc., which commissions public art (including the twin towers of light commemorating September 11th). From theater festivals in ancient Athens to Mardi Gras in New Orleans to Woodstock and Burning Man, public art and music festivals are a constant in human civilization. What makes these festivals so popular and so necessary?
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October 9, 8 pm - ROBERT REICH, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor, is concerned that both corporations and consumers have focused so much on profit that they are losing sight of principle. He discusses the importance of moral stands in the world of high finance and investment with The Wall Street Journal's R. THOMAS HERMAN.
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October 16, 8 pm - PAUL KRUGMAN — often described as the heir to John Kenneth Galbraith — has just put out a new book that looks at reforms intended to narrow the gap between rich and poor, starting in the Gilded Age and reaching an apex with the New Deal. Krugman argues those achievements have unraveled, and that there's now profound political and economic inequality in American society. He discusses his ideas with LEONARD LOPATE.
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October 18, 8:15 pm - Legendary chess champion GARRY KASPAROV explains how chess can teach all of us to be better players in life, whether at home, work or in society.
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October 22, 8:15 pm - New York Times reporter JOSEPH BERGER engages leading newsmakers, trendsetters and intellectuals in a free-flowing, provocative discussion about the events of the day. He welcomes JEFFREY TOOBIN, a staff writer for The New Yorker and CNN's legal analyst.
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November 8, 8:15 pm - Two thoughtful writers and perceptive observers of the American scene come to the Y to discuss American culture: EDWARD P. JONES, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Known World, and STANLEY CROUCH, the essayist, commentator, columnist and critic.
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November 11, 7:30 pm - ALAN DERSHOWITZ found an obscure letter by Thomas Jefferson in a bookstore one day. Find out what he learned from it and what it has to do with free speech, security and terrorism as he talks with CNN's JEFFREY TOOBIN.
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November 13, 8 pm - One of the true greats of baseball, TOMMY LASORDA, sits down with one of the greats of sports broadcasting, BOB COSTAS.
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November 26, 8:15 pm - One of the most powerful women in media, CATHLEEN BLACK, who publishes Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines, talks with gossip queen LIZ SMITH.
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December 2, 7:30 pm - Having considered "the greatest generation," TOM BROKAW takes a look at the turbulent 1960s and the aftereffects of that emotional decade.
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| BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY |
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September 18, 8 pm - While he led the Federal Reserve, ALAN GREENSPAN was seen as an oracle, pronouncing on the American economy. Now in private life, his opinions are still given weight. He's got a book out and has plenty of thoughts about America's economic health since 9/11. Expect him to open up at the Y since his interviewer will be none other than his wife, NBC correspondent ANDREA MITCHELL.
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September 20, 8:15 pm - BRUCE WASSERTSTEIN, of Lazard Frères, Wasserstein & Co, broker of over 1000 business transactions, owner of New York magazine, and major donor to Harvard Law School, talks with BusinessWeek's STEPHEN J. ADLER.
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October 15, 8:15 pm - Goldman Sachs investment strategist ABBY JOSEPH COHEN provides an overview of the U.S. market.
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October 18, 8 pm - Will the Manhattan real estate bubble ever really burst? How can you protect yourself if it does? Three real estate experts, JONATHAN MILLER, JACKY TEPLITZKY, and ADAM MODLIN take a clear-eyed look at the New York market with PAUL PURCELL.
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November 8, 8:15 pm - From Wales to CBS News to CBS corporate headquarters to Sony America to running the entire Sony Corporation — SIR HOWARD STRINGER talks with Businessweek's STEPHEN J. ADLER.
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November 13, 8 pm - The chief investment strategist for Morgan Stanley, DAVID DARST, explores the best ways to diversify a portfolio.
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December 11, 8 pm - JIM CRAMER always has something on his mind. Find out what it is tonight.
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February 11, 8:15 pm - ANNE MULCAHY put Xerox back on top of the tech heap; she talks with BusinessWeek's STEPHEN J. ADLER about how she did it.
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February 12, 8 pm - RICHARD BERNSTEIN, the head of Merrill Lynch's Investment Strategy group discusses changing investment strategies.
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February 24, 7:30 pm - JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN tried to use the World Bank as a tool to diminish world poverty. How well does he think he succeeded? Find out as he talks with Wall Street Journal writer R. THOMAS HERMAN.
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| ENTERTAINMENT AND COMEDY |
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September 5, 8 pm - MICHAEL PALIN talks about his Monty Python days and his adventures traveling the globe.
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September 6, 8 pm - Making a rare public appearance, LARRY DAVID talks with Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star SUSIE ESSMAN.
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September 23, 7:30 pm - ALAN ALDA talks over his career and his news book, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself with ROGER ROSENBLATT.
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October 9, 8:15 pm - STEVE EARLE does it all — writes and performs Grammy-winning music, acts in The Wire, hosts a weekly radio show, and is active in political causes. Oh, and he's writing his first novel. What else? ANTHONY DECURTIS asks him.
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October 24, 1 pm - Award-winning playwright CHRISTOPHER DURANG explains it all to you — and to journalist and commentator ROGER ROSENBLATT.
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October 29, 8 pm - Legendary singer, songwriter and Grammy-winner PAUL SIMON discusses the art of lyric-writing.
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October 29, 8:15 pm - Gather for an evening of scary and mysterious story-telling with RIDLEY PEARSON and DAVE BARRY. Kid-friendly event.
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November 6, 8 pm - Is there a Jewish sense of humor? If so, how has it informed American humor at large? JUDY GOLD and JACKIE HOFFMAN take on Jews and the American punch line.
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November 7, 8 pm - Incredibly, the presidential election is still a year away. If that alarms you, come hear award-winning satirist ANDY BOROWITZ of The New Yorker as he takes a look at the highs and lows we've already seen in this campaign, and the ones that still await us. Joining Borowitz will be a panel of comedians, journalists and newsmakers.
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Dec 5, 1 pm - GARRY TRUDEAU's Doonesbury is as trenchant, sharp and funny as it was when it began in 1970. He talks over what's on his mind with journalist and commentator ROGER ROSENBLATT.
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Dec 9, 7:30 pm - He's an Emmy and Grammy winner, has written movies, novels and plays, has starred in countless films and made numerous television appearances. Lines from his routines have become part of everyday language. Oh, and he's funny, too — STEVE MARTIN.
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December 16, 7:30 pm - Social and sexual politics, music, poetry and painting — ANI DIFRANCO has turned her hand to all of these. She talks with Rolling Stone's ANTHONY DECURTIS.
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Dec 18, 8:15 pm - CHARLES GRODIN has been gleaning stories of famous, successful people who have made mistakes that ended up teaching them something valuable. He may even have made some himself. He'll discuss the plus side of messing up with DR. GAIL SALTZ.
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| SCIENCE AND MEDICINE |
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October 2, 8 pm - Two Nobel Prize-winning scientists on the Y stage. DR. ERIC KANDEL, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons, interviews DR. JAMES D. WATSON, the man who, with Francis Crick, discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
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October 16, 8:15 pm - How doctors arrive at their diagnoses need not be a mystery to their patients. DR. JEROME GROOPMAN, whose writing often appears in The New Yorker, explains that a combination of science, habit, experience and intuition informs doctors' decision-making.
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October 23, 8:15 pm - Memorial Sloan-Kettering's head of solid tumor oncology, DR. LARRY NORTON, explains the latest advances in breast cancer research, prevention and treatment.
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October 30, 8:15 pm - J. CRAIG VENTER is nothing if not bold. First he raced against fellow scientists to map the human genome; now he says he wants to create a new form of life—a designer microbe that could transform ordinary crops into ethanol. He talks over his plans with ROBERT KRULWICH.
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November 13, 8:15 pm - A leading authority on global warming, MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER, describes what is happening to our planet, our atmosphere and our lives.
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November 15, 8:15 pm - JIM BELL worked on the color-imaging system used by the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity when they landed on Mars. He shares some favorite "postcards from Mars" and explains what they tell us about Mars itself, and about the similarities and differences between Mars and the Earth.
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November 19, 8:15 pm - To combat addiction, one has to recognize it as a disease, and understand how it works. DR. NORA VOLKOW, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH, pioneered brain imaging as a way to detect the toxic effects of drugs. She explains her research and its implications for addiction treatment.
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December 10, 8 pm - MALCOLM GLADWELL studies how humans make decisions: the circumstances that force them to change plans and the nanosecond thought processes that form a snap judgment. He discusses these complex mechanics with ROBERT KRULWICH.
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December 20, 8:15 pm - Is 100 million years of life on earth now close to an end, thanks to global warming? MICHAEL NOVACEK of the American Museum of Natural History talks about the threats we face and what we can do about them.
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March 4, 8 pm - ERIC KANDEL, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory, is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia. He discusses what he's learned over the course of his career and what he's discovering now with ROBERT KRULWICH.
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April 3, 8:15 pm - A rock'n'roll band made up of neuroscientists, with songs like "Mind-Body Problem," "Memory Pill" and "Extinction"? Wailing guitars and drums teaching you about how neural science works? Why not? Come see JOSEPH LEDOUX and his band, THE AMYGDALOIDS.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 8,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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