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	<title>Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon</title>
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		<title>Pico Iyer: Channeling Graham Greene and the World Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pico Iyer-- my monitor on the global spirit in conversation and books -- hears voices: of the Dalai Lama, Henry David Thoreau, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell among others. But the strongest dialog in Iyer's busy brain seems to run between Emerson and the late English novelist Graham Greene ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin (from Heaven) White: Footnotes in his Favor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ride the Orange Line end to end and share the sense that the Seventies in Boston — the vision and activism of, let’s call it, the Kevin White era — left the city a gift that keeps on giving and seems still vastly under-appreciated...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/kevin-from-heaven-white-footnotes-in-his-favor/</link>
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		<title>Kevin White and the Boston He Imagined</title>
		<description><![CDATA["... it seems to me now that Kevin White’s vision of the “world-class city” was a wistful evocation of what this Boston-Cambridge core of New England has in fact become: the best big college town in the country, arguably the intellectual capital of the world — a tolerant and cosmopolitan old address with durable Brahmin and Irish inlaid veneers, an endlessly charged, stimulating place to live. Kevin White’s sort of city, in short, and still today a work of his fervid imagination."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/kevin-white-and-the-boston-he-imagined/</link>
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		<title>Steve Pinker&#8217;s &#8220;Better Angels&#8221;: Dodging Our Own Bullet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption.  The short form of <i>The Better Angels of Our Nature</i> is that we're on the verge of Candide's "best of all possible worlds."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/steve-pinkers-better-angels-dodging-our-own-bullet/</link>
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		<title>Anatol Lieven: how to end the US dust-up with Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anatol Lieven decodes the clash of "allies" ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/anatol-lieven-how-to-end-the-us-dust-up-with-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>Ha Jin&#8217;s recovered memory of Americans in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ha Jin's darkest fear about China is that the control-freak regime he fled 25 years ago has enough cash on hand to buy a lease on life -- in Washington and the West, at the expense of its people.  The "myth" of an imperial rivalry with the US seems laughable to him... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ha-jins-recovered-memory-of-americans-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Mark Blyth (7): &#8220;We can&#8217;t all export to Mars&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Blyth is flying us over the embattled Eurozone -- populations aging, economies flagging, and now democracy shrinking as technocrats in bankers' gray stand in this week for the elected political chiefs in Greece and Italy...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/mark-blyth-7-we-cant-all-export-to-mars/</link>
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		<title>David Grossman: looking for an end of &#8220;the situation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Grossman is considering my question: why the "good guy" solutions have availed so little in the Middle East, over such an ominously long time.  Patriot and peacenik, critical-thinker and oppositionist, Zionist and humanist, David Grossman is a good guy, and then some...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/david-grossman-looking-for-an-end-of-the-situation/</link>
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		<title>Harold Bloom&#8217;s Moby-Dick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom is giving us a one-man performance of a one-act play. He invited us months ago to his class at Yale on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and finally here it is and here we are. Because this is Harold Bloom on stage, himself the “living labyrinth” of literature, his jazz-like solo improvisation is endlessly allusive — to Lear (“81 years old, my age”), to Macbeth ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/harold-blooms-melville/</link>
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		<title>My evening with Joan Didion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joan Didion is reading from her second smashing meditation on death, Blue Nights. And I’m her interlocutor and foil again onstage in Cambridge. With a woman of the considered written word, not the spontaneous spoken word, it’s a tricky job. ]]></description>
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