Tuesday, January 6
Hour 1
Last week, publishers of a long-awaited Holocaust memoir “The Angel at the Fence” announced that the author had fabricated parts of the story. We talk about how the lies where uncovered, what motivated the author and why this particular case of fraud seems particularly egregious. Our guests are KENNETH WALTZER, professor of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, and MARC AGRONIN, a geriatric psychiatrist whose patients include Holocaust survivors.
Hour 2
If you could name the one word that defines the year 2008 what would it be? Later this week, the American Dialect Society will meet in San Francisco to vote on the word of the year. We talk with BEN ZIMMER, a member of the executive Committee of the Society. And here’s a hint, in early voting the word “change” is in the lead.
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What single word best defines the year 2008? Here's a hint, the 2007 word of the year was "subprime."
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