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Archive for December 10th, 2009

health,politics

New ideas for health care legislation and is it possible to control costs?

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Hour 1
Senate majority leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday night a new compromise for health care legislation among Senate democrats centered on expanding Medicare. The New Republic's JONATHON COHN explains what it's about. Then we talk to LEN NICHOLS from the New America Foundation about health care costs. Can we bend the curve?

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author,entertainment

Terry Teachout – Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Hour 2
Wall Street Journal drama critic TERRY TEACHOUT says innovative jazz composer and trumpet player Louis Armstrong "has done more than any other performer to shape America's collective personality." Born in New Orleans to a poor, 15 year old domestic and prostitute, Armstrong grew into one of the most famous people in the world. Many people attribute Armstrong to popularizing jazz throughout the world, characterizing him as a jolly, humble and sunny presence that inspired generations, both musically and spiritually, almost forty years after his death. TEACHOUT's new book is called, "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong."

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