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 Inspection • How-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: Biography • History • United 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: History • European history • International 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: Communication • Community • Relationships • Rhetoric/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: Education • History • United 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: History • Military
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 Justice • Media and journalism • Police • Race/Ethnicity
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