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Focus 580 Archives for Week of November 16, 2009

Interviews on global affairs and daily life

Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580

Monday November 16, 2009, 10:06 AM

Home Care

Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection

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Categories: Home InspectionHow-to

Monday November 16, 2009, 11:06 AM

U.S. Grant American Hero, American Myth

Joan Waugh, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

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Categories: BiographyHistoryUnited States history

Tuesday November 17, 2009, 10:06 AM

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

Stephen Kotkin, Ph.D., the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University

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Categories: HistoryEuropean historyInternational Affairs

Tuesday November 17, 2009, 11:06 AM

The Need for Civility in Society

P.M. Forni, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Literature, Department of German and romance Languages and Literature, Johns Hopkins University and Co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project

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Categories: CommunicationCommunityRelationshipsRhetoric/Debate

Wednesday November 18, 2009, 10:06 AM

"Marketplace Solutions: Segregationists and the Surprising History of School Vouchers"

Nancy MacLean, Ph.D., Professor of History and African American Studies; Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities, and Interim Director of Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University

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Categories: EducationHistoryUnited States history

Wednesday November 18, 2009, 11:06 AM

Consumer Electronics

Rich Warren, Host of The Midnight Special on WFMT and WILL

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Categories: Consumer issues

Thursday November 19, 2009, 10:06 AM

Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWS, MIAS, and the Unending Vietnam War

Michael J. Allen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

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Categories: HistoryMilitary

Thursday November 19, 2009, 11:06 AM

The Reconstruction of American Journalism: A Report from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

Michael Schudson, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

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Categories: Media and journalism

Friday November 20, 2009, 10:06 AM

Personal Finance

David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Personal Finance

Friday November 20, 2009, 11:06 AM

The Media, Race and Policing in the United States

Robert Lombardo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Member of Graduate Faculty, LoyolaUniversity of Chicago

N. Donald Wycliff, B.A., Distinguished Journalist in Residence

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Categories: Criminal JusticeMedia and journalismPoliceRace/Ethnicity

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