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August 19, 2006 · Mike Moore, the former attorney general of Mississippi, weighs a judge's ruling that tobacco companies used deceptive marketing practices. Moore was a lead negotiator in the 1998 settlement between Big Tobacco and the states.
The author waxes rhapsodic about the Swiss tennis great in "Roger Federer as Religious Experience." Web Extra: Excerpt from Wallace's Article
Samuel Thompson played tunes to soothe the crowd seeking shelter inside the ill-fated sports arena. Web Extra: Thompson Plays Bach
August 18, 2006 · Neil Burger, writer and director of the movie The Illusionist, says he tried not to use film effects to create the magic captured on screen. He also talks about how he became interested in magic. Based on a short story, the film stars Paul Giamatti, Edward Norton and Jessica Biel.
August 17, 2006 · Sara Tavares is a truly international talent. But the 26-year-old Portuguese-born singer, whose parents are from Cape Verde, seems most at home behind her guitar. Creating music is "medicine and a cathartic process," she says.
August 18, 2006 · House, the first significant film by Israeli director Amos Gitai, told the story of a Jerusalem home in Jewish hands that had once been owned by Palestinians. His latest movie, Free Zone,, stars Natalie Portman as an American caught up in Israeli-Palestinian quarrels. Gitai is Israel's most well-known movie director, but his movies are controversial because of the difficult questions he raises.
August 18, 2006 · Next week, HBO debuts a Spike-Lee produced documentary that chronicles Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Lee says the film, When the Levees Broke, is ultimately a plea to renew the city of New Orleans, where many black residents have not yet returned -- and where there's still no concrete rebuilding plan.
August 18, 2006 · The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon has allowed thousands of Lebanese refugees to return to their homes -- or what's left of them. Muhammed Shuker, whose home was one of the first in Beirut to be destroyed by Israeli bombings targeting Hezbollah-dominated neighborhoods, talks with Alex Chadwick about his own bittersweet homecoming.
August 18, 2006 · Ambassador Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, sizes up Hezbollah's current military power. Burns also discusses how the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has affected Iran's position in the region.
August 18, 2006 · A resurgent Taliban threatens the security of Afghanistan. NATO is in the country to guarantee security. But the job of rebuilding Afghanistan requires more than firepower.
August 16, 2006 · Darrell Mease, a convicted murderer, was scheduled to die in Missouri when his prayers were answered. Pope John Paul II won Mease, a Christian convert, a commutation of his death sentence during a 1999 Missouri visit.
August 17, 2006 · The deadly conflict between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon was reportedly sparked by the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers guarding the Lebanon-Israeli border. But despite the cease fire, those soldiers have not been returned.
August 17, 2006 · Albert Camus' existential novel The Stranger is on President Bush's summer reading list. Jim Asher, chair of the English department at Pasadena High School in Southern California, talks with Madeleine Brand about why the book might be on the busy president's agenda. The classic novel is on the summer reading list his high school, too.
August 17, 2006 · Sam Moore of the legendary duo Sam & Dave talks with Ed Gordon about his new solo album Sam Moore: Overnight Sensational. The album will be released August 29.
August 17, 2006 · Joan Cheever, author of Back from the Dead, followed former death row inmates who were released when the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972.
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