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newsdial-984::0 | MARILYN GEEWAX, BYLINE: And one senator, for example today, Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, sent a letter to the president urging him - I'm quoting from the letter - he says, "to put an end to these practices immediately, to ensure that the investment decisions being made by Freddie Mac are in line wit... | newsdial-984 | 0 | 0 | 525 | |
newsdial-984::1 | So I think there are people on Capitol Hill who are starting to really ponder, What is the structure of these organizations and what role do they play? What's appropriate for them to do? And this is just sort of an interesting look at conflicts of interest. We are not, in any way - our story has not said that it is ill... | newsdial-984 | 1 | 526 | 1,065 | |
newsdial-984::2 | Freddie Mac, he said, prevented households from being able to take advantage of today's mortgage rates and then bet on it. You say, well, Freddie Mac has two arms, one, the left hand, did not necessarily know what the right hand is doing. However, they seemed to be miraculously working in concert. | newsdial-984 | 2 | 1,066 | 1,364 | |
newsdial-924::0 | AMY PAVUK: Right. And that's what makes these criminal investigations so difficult, is because law enforcement essentially has to hire or get doctors involved to assess these and look at these and say, OK, if this person came in with a back pain, what would you ordinarily do? Would you do this? Would you do that? Would... | newsdial-924 | 0 | 0 | 482 | |
newsdial-924::1 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Tom Parkinson, you think a pattern would indicate - well, a pattern - if you're dispensing large numbers of pills to large numbers of people, maybe people should get suspicious.
TOM PARKINSON, BYLINE: Yes. And to their credit, law enforcement is cracking down, and it apparently is having a tremendous ... | newsdial-924 | 1 | 483 | 1,041 | |
newsdial-924::2 | A number of doctors have gone to prison, and we're talking, you know, five, 10, 15-year sentences. So they really are cracking down. It seems to be having an effect. One telling number, I think, is the doctor purchases of oxycodone dropped from 35 million doses in period of 2010 to less than a million, 925,000. | newsdial-924 | 2 | 1,042 | 1,354 | |
newsdial-599::0 | URI BERLINER, BYLINE: Absolutely. The Post has been very aggressive in its reporting of Trump. Trump has also feuded with Amazon, the company that Jeff Bezos founded. He claims they get all kinds of breaks. They're not paying their fair share of taxes. So this has been an ongoing feud between between President Trump an... | newsdial-599 | 0 | 0 | 366 | |
newsdial-599::1 | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And remind us about the National Enquirer's connection to the investigations into Donald Trump because David Pecker was granted immunity in the investigation into Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen because Pecker was involved into those illicit payments to Karen McDougal, right?
URI BERLINER, BYLI... | newsdial-599 | 1 | 367 | 904 | |
newsdial-599::2 | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: He also refers to his ownership of the Post as being a complexifier for him, which is an odd word. But, I mean, what more does he say about his role as the owner of the Post?
URI BERLINER, BYLINE: He says, (laughter) yeah, it's a complexifier, difficult, but he has no regrets about owning the Post.... | newsdial-599 | 2 | 905 | 1,372 | |
newsdial-184::0 | Ms. BEVERLY ARNOLD (Resident, Detroit): There were so many foods that my body had not been used to eating and accustomed to because after the surgery they have what is called a new stomach. So my body was still getting accustomed to having different foods in my system. So that first year was really - that was really ha... | newsdial-184 | 0 | 0 | 551 | |
newsdial-184::1 | For people who have not gone through surgery, though, what keeps you in line? What advice can you give people?
Dr. ROVENIA BROCK (Nutritionist): I think the first thing is you've got to go - come to the table with the mindset that you are going to stick to your plan no matter how many times aunts - whomever - you know,... | newsdial-184 | 1 | 552 | 1,012 | |
newsdial-184::2 | ROVENIA BROCK (Nutritionist): You have to come to the table with the mindset that it's okay to sample, as Beverly said, sample a little bit of your - and I would say pick your three top things, okay? We know that there are staples on everyone's table that which might be - might include the turkey, the stuffing, a veget... | newsdial-184 | 2 | 1,013 | 1,472 | |
newsdial-144::0 | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: Sometimes, family meals mark a rite of passage. Here's essayist Patrice Gaines.
Ms. PATRICE GAINES (Former Reporter, Washington Post): When I was 12 years old, I was moved from the children's table to the adult table. I think it was because there were more children than chairs at the card table, wh... | newsdial-144 | 0 | 0 | 535 | |
newsdial-144::1 | WILLIAM C. RHODEN (Columnist, New York Times), My favorite Thanksgiving memory is sitting in my grandmother's house in Harvey, Illinois with all my, like, 15, you know, relatives or brothers and sisters, eating Thanksgiving dinner, and then not having to clean up afterwards.
Ms. PATRICE GAINES (Former Reporter, Washing... | newsdial-144 | 1 | 536 | 1,044 | |
newsdial-144::2 | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: For political analyst Ron Christie, the best thing about Thanksgiving was the way it brought generations together.
Mr. RON CHRISTIE (Political Analyst): Without question it has to be back when I was in high school in California. My grandparents are both in their mid-90s now and they live Valdosta, ... | newsdial-144 | 2 | 1,045 | 1,629 | |
newsdial-144::3 | And it was just neat having our extended and our close in family under one roof at one time and just staying up and laughing, and, without question, my happiest Thanksgiving Day memory. | newsdial-144 | 3 | 1,630 | 1,815 | |
newsdial-880::0 | KATHERINE NEWMAN: In the Italian families I interviewed, those kids were helping to pay off that family mortgage. So who does that house belong to? Will that help them someday with some sort of asserts? Straightforward disclosure certainly helps.
JENNIFER LUDDEN, HOST: All right, I actually maybe said goodbye a bit too... | newsdial-880 | 0 | 0 | 507 | |
newsdial-880::1 | He's a division president for Southern California - in Southern California for Lennar Homes. The company saw this trend toward more family members living under the same roof as a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy housing market. Greg McGuff is with us now by phone from his office in Corona, California. Welcome to you.... | newsdial-880 | 1 | 508 | 1,080 | |
newsdial-880::2 | What's this market?
GREG MCGUFF: Well, you know, what we see on the multigenerational front is really a market where, you know, you see one in five households currently living multigenerationally, yet you didn't really see a new home building or new housing providing homes for those buyers. | newsdial-880 | 2 | 1,081 | 1,372 | |
newsdial-983::0 | CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: Well, and this is something, you know, we want to be careful got to overstate here. And what Freddie Mac says is there is a firewall between the investment part of its business and the part of its business that sets policy for homeowners and for refinancing, some things like that. So they say what... | newsdial-983 | 0 | 0 | 507 | |
newsdial-983::1 | But even at best, what our reporting has shown is that they're making a calculated bet against homeowners being able to refinance, and that - you know, is that an appropriate bet for a company that can control homeowners' ability to refinance to be making?
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Is it, Marilyn, a legal bet? There seems to b... | newsdial-983 | 1 | 508 | 853 | |
newsdial-983::2 | MARILYN GEEWAX, BYLINE: And there are people in Congress now who are starting to wonder about whether or not this should be changed, at the moment, as the laws are structured, and as Freddie Mac's mission is, which is to not go broke. You know, it's supposed to be a solvent organization doing its business, but it's als... | newsdial-983 | 2 | 854 | 1,256 | |
newsdial-129::0 | MADELEINE BRAND, host: Ms. Stein, thank you for joining us.
Ms. IRENE STEIN (Superdelegate, Chairwoman, Tompkins County Democratic Committee): You're very welcome.
MADELEINE BRAND, host: That's Irene Stein of Ithaca, New York, a newly announced superdelegate for Hillary Clinton.
ALEX CHADWICK, host: Seattle lawyer and ... | newsdial-129 | 0 | 0 | 496 | |
newsdial-129::1 | He stayed undeclared through that process and now says he will vote for Senator Obama. David McDonald, we spoke on Friday. Welcome back. How long have you known that Senator Obama is your candidate?
Mr. DAVID MCDONALD (Democratic superdelegate): Oh, I would say about 18, 19 hours, or so...
ALEX CHADWICK, host: Really? ... | newsdial-129 | 1 | 497 | 916 | |
newsdial-129::2 | ALEX CHADWICK, host: I know that you felt you shouldn't say where you were before this Rules Committee meeting over the weekend, but did you really have some instinct of where you were going?
Mr. DAVID MCDONALD (Democratic superdelegate): No. But what I had is from watching that either one of them could win the general... | newsdial-129 | 2 | 917 | 1,487 | |
newsdial-129::3 | And having a six-hour plane flight with no cell phone interruptions and unfortunately, or fortunately I suppose, no movies on the plane that I hadn't seen. And a night's sleep, and then woke up and thought, well, you know, I need to think about this, this morning, and started thinking about it, but I needed some free t... | newsdial-129 | 3 | 1,488 | 2,082 | |
newsdial-129::4 | That and coupled with the energy level that I was seeing in Obama supporters were really kind of the tipping factors. | newsdial-129 | 4 | 2,083 | 2,200 | |
newsdial-956::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: I'm sure she would find room for it.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Sizzle reel is about TV production proposals. It has nothing to do with steak.
SONNY: That's right.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: OK. Sonny, thanks very much. Good luck with that.
SONNY: Thank you.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: All right. Bye-bye. When, Lori Greiner, did... | newsdial-956 | 0 | 0 | 413 | |
newsdial-956::1 | I was fortunate enough to - with good pitches, which I think was very important - get into JCPenney nationwide and to get on the shopping TV network. But it was a very key thing that I did when I would call people because it's very difficult to get buyers at any store or shopping network to pick up the phone.
LORI GREI... | newsdial-956 | 1 | 414 | 970 | |
newsdial-956::2 | I'd be in their town on thus and such a date. And by giving them a way in which to see me quickly and trying to intrigue them, almost every single one of them allowed me to see them for five minutes. | newsdial-956 | 2 | 971 | 1,170 | |
newsdial-987::0 | JEFF: The issue is Freddie Mac keeps changing the rules. There isn't any teeth into the programs. There's no penalty involved for people like us who cannot refinance because, if we have to get an appraisal, our house is worth less than what we paid for it three years ago.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Underwater - that's the under... | newsdial-987 | 0 | 0 | 456 | |
newsdial-987::1 | And, you know, there have been some baby step - I guess you might call it - efforts to allow underwater borrowers and other borrowers to get these lower rates - if, as the caller says, you know, they have good credit, they've got jobs, they can pay. It's just here they are stuck, you know, in a higher interest rate.
CH... | newsdial-987 | 1 | 457 | 1,009 | |
newsdial-987::2 | CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: So, you know, the idea is here we could help millions of people. So far, I think just about a million people have been helped through that program, but there are 10 or 20 million other people out there who haven't been able to access it. And so the question implicitly of the story is, well, you kn... | newsdial-987 | 2 | 1,010 | 1,571 | |
newsdial-810::0 | IRA FLATOW, HOST: So you've pushed this fossil back over 30,000 years. Where would the - what was the last fossil estimate of that timeline?
CROCKFORD: Well, in around 12 to 14,000.
IRA FLATOW, HOST: Wow, that's a big difference.
CROCKFORD: Yeah, it is a big difference. And one of the things that really is critical, we... | newsdial-810 | 0 | 0 | 412 | |
newsdial-810::1 | IRA FLATOW, HOST: Oh.
CROCKFORD: And so a lot of places where some of the other fossils have been found in Europe actually were covered in glaciers during that ice age period.
IRA FLATOW, HOST: Mm-hmm.
CROCKFORD: So it's a really important blockage...
IRA FLATOW, HOST: Yeah.
CROCKFORD: ...of things going on in Europe. | newsdial-810 | 1 | 413 | 732 | |
newsdial-810::2 | And one of the things that we noticed was that while this specimen was found before the ice age, there are no specimens similar to it that continue on through the ice age period or after in that same area of Siberia. That area of Siberia actually wasn't covered by glaciers, and so people still live there. And even stil... | newsdial-810 | 2 | 733 | 1,260 | |
newsdial-810::3 | There are several more specimens similar to this one that we found that were found in Belgium, the Czech Republic and around the Caucasus in Southern Europe and - that are similar to this and about the same - from the same time period. But still this big gap. | newsdial-810 | 3 | 1,261 | 1,520 | |
newsdial-965::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: I believe it was just last year that an exhibit opened up at the site of the camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. Your father's family relocated to Topaz in Utah, but many others were in camps all throughout the West, one of them at Heart Mountain, and an exhibit has opened up there. I wondered if you'v... | newsdial-965 | 0 | 0 | 448 | |
newsdial-965::1 | We're going to give you a chance to catch your breath for just a moment.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: We're talking with Karen Korematsu, the daughter of Fred Korematsu, the civil rights champion whose legacy is being honored this week in California, as we mentioned, later this week in Washington, D.C. And you're listening to TAL... | newsdial-965 | 1 | 449 | 941 | |
newsdial-965::2 | I can't remember the exact year, but I was - it's just a great honor to some time back be granted the Fred Korematsu Award for Human Rights.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Really?
DAVE: And it's just something that has stayed with me my entire life. Reading his story, listening to him whenever I could, it just - it's been a wonderf... | newsdial-965 | 2 | 942 | 1,290 | |
newsdial-588::0 | KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: Yeah. I mean, this is, at the end of the day, an agreement on a spending package on a spending bill that they had to pass anyway. And the people who worked it out are the people who write spending bills. This is not - this is a bipartisan group of the biggest experts in Congress in writing spendin... | newsdial-588 | 0 | 0 | 507 | |
newsdial-588::1 | KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: Right. Congress has to approve the legislation and send it to President Trump for his signature before the Friday midnight deadline. And Trump would presumably need time to sign it. Senator Richard Shelby, who is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the Senate, seemed pretty optimistic ... | newsdial-588 | 1 | 508 | 1,067 | |
newsdial-588::2 | KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: So he says that the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hope springs eternal, Kelsey, doesn't it?
KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: (Laughter) It does, and they say that they'll have the bill probably ready sometime today. And Congress can move pretty quickly once they have bill text in hand. | newsdial-588 | 2 | 1,068 | 1,359 | |
newsdial-931::0 | FRED: They're supporting themselves off it because people you would never expect to be drug dealers are, you know, 60, 50, 60 years old getting prescriptions because they don't have a good pension, and they're supporting themselves by reselling their pills. Also, a great deal of the pills he was purchasing were coming ... | newsdial-931 | 0 | 0 | 442 | |
newsdial-931::1 | Like I say, I fight every day, you know, trying to get my son so he's going to stay alive.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Fred, you must be...
FRED: And the doctors are just - oh, the doctors, I - they are the ones who should be thrown in jail. And...
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Well, Fred...
FRED: ... pass out scrips without any follow up o... | newsdial-931 | 1 | 443 | 804 | |
newsdial-931::2 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Fred, I know you must be worried sick, and we hope your son deals - well, finds a way out of the addiction. But he raises a good point, and I wanted to read it - raise it again in the context of this email from Christopher in Orlando. My mother was a regular visitor of a local Central Florida pill mil... | newsdial-931 | 2 | 805 | 1,310 | |
newsdial-51::0 | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: So people…
Mr. KEITH REED (Economics Reporter, Cincinnati Enquirer): …you got the confluence or factors that are putting pressure on the retail environment. It's not that people don't want to buy or that they're ignoring what the retailers are doing. It's just that people are in a position that the... | newsdial-51 | 0 | 0 | 554 | |
newsdial-51::1 | So there's a specific case every year since'96, the NAACP has put out a report on corporate retailers in black communities. Target, for the past three years, has not participated in the survey. The NAACP is bringing this up pointedly. Now, there's so much focus on stores that market themselves as good for the environme... | newsdial-51 | 1 | 555 | 1,033 | |
newsdial-51::2 | Although I don't really know that there's any evidence that that it's enough to move the needle, and I have to admit that I haven't seen data on this. But I do think that, you know, there's always going to be some segment of the population that will be influenced in their buying decisions by - based on certain social o... | newsdial-51 | 2 | 1,034 | 1,599 | |
newsdial-51::3 | X percent of the population is going to be - excuse me - very concerned with racial or community factors. And that percentage in the population, I think is relatively small. What the challenge is for the NAACP in the report that you talked about in their effort to galvanize something that will boycott will be to agitat... | newsdial-51 | 3 | 1,600 | 2,006 | |
newsdial-971::0 | JACKSON DIEHL: And I've heard that Turkey is supplying that army with weapons. So Erdogan has completely come around to the other side on that issue, and it shows that in the Arab Spring as a whole, he is backing the forces of liberal change.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Well, interesting. If a NATO ally is backing a irredentist ... | newsdial-971 | 0 | 0 | 506 | |
newsdial-971::1 | It's an insurgent force fighting against a dictatorship. And it's really not different from backing the Libyan rebels, which NATO supported, again, with Turkey's participation. I think the difference here is that Turkey's the neighbor, and they have the capacity to do something that the rest of the NATO allies, probabl... | newsdial-971 | 1 | 507 | 1,024 | |
newsdial-971::2 | But anyway, moving on from other aspects of that, if we're lucky, you say, places like Egypt and Iraq will use Turkey as a model.
JACKSON DIEHL: Yeah. You hope that that's what will happen. I mean, there's, you know, there's a different sort of Islamic movement coming out in the Middle East. We're used to seeing Islami... | newsdial-971 | 2 | 1,025 | 1,525 | |
newsdial-971::3 | Now we're seeing a kind of Islamic movement that has sworn off violence, that has a much more - is much willing to cooperate with the West and is operating in this kind of uncertain middle ground and are sort of up for play. | newsdial-971 | 3 | 1,526 | 1,750 | |
newsdial-916::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Ronen Bergman, what the kinds of advance notice would Israel give to the United States? What terms of the election timing does Israel take into account?
BERGMAN: Yeah, these are two different questions. The first about the alert. The United States has urged Israel not to strike and also request Israel... | newsdial-916 | 0 | 0 | 579 | |
newsdial-916::1 | On the other hand, the Americans use the same vague language when it came to the Israeli questions on what the United States exactly is willing to do in order to fulfill the presidential promise to do - to be determined to prevent Iran from being nuclear. So both sides are using - on the crucial questions are using a v... | newsdial-916 | 1 | 580 | 1,130 | |
newsdial-916::2 | The elections in the United States are considerations as the overall structure and the quality of the relations between the United States and Israel, which are perceived with all good reason as the most important strategic asset that Israel has. But at the end of the day when the main consideration is to prevent Iran f... | newsdial-916 | 2 | 1,131 | 1,697 | |
newsdial-935::0 | LORI GREINER: Well, I think a couple things that I noticed people did wrong, one was having a lack of enthusiasm or confidence in what they were pitching. If they don't believe in it, you're not going to. And I think when doing the pitch, missing opportunities. | newsdial-935 | 0 | 0 | 261 | |
newsdial-935::1 | LORI GREINER: So when you see that people are reacting and they're ready to give you an offer, or, you know, they say when you've already gotten, that they're sealing the deal, walk away, say yes and take it, I think many people miss opportunities by continuing to haggle or dicker about little points.
NEAL CONAN, HOST:... | newsdial-935 | 1 | 262 | 702 | |
newsdial-935::2 | BRIDGET WHALEN HUNNICUTT: Yeah, I think that there is an art to listening in the pitch that sometimes people forget. Oftentimes you've got great sales people going in to give the pitch, and they forget I can listen and ask questions and really jump on those opportunities that do come up, get to know the buyer and what ... | newsdial-935 | 2 | 703 | 1,267 | |
newsdial-964::0 | MICHELLE: He didn't tell many people, but he told his family all the stories. I've always known those stories, you know? So it was really neat. We're very proud of him, and he wasn't necessarily, you know, proud. He felt like it was their duty as Americans to do that, so - but we're very proud of him.
NEAL CONAN, HOST:... | newsdial-964 | 0 | 0 | 367 | |
newsdial-964::1 | I've had the great opportunity to meet several people who've received the Medal of Honor, and to a man they all said the people who deserve those awards, in fact, never came back, and they're just lucky to be representative of their units and the people who truly deserve to be honored. I'm sure your grandfather did won... | newsdial-964 | 1 | 368 | 912 | |
newsdial-964::2 | KAREN KOREMATSU-HAIGH: Well, yes. You know, also I'd like to point out that your caller said that, you know, her family knew about her grandfather. But there was really a code of silence among the Japanese-American community not to talk about their experience. They wanted just to get on with their lives and to prove th... | newsdial-964 | 2 | 913 | 1,510 | |
newsdial-824::0 | CLAY SHIRKY: That means you've got this small subset, as NPR has a core of users that support it, you've got now in these newspapers a small subset of their users who aren't just customers but are approaching a condition like members.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Well, joining us now from a studio at the New York Times, where she... | newsdial-824 | 0 | 0 | 500 | |
newsdial-824::1 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: And I'm not sure you accept Clay Shirky's analogy, but if you get into the tote bag business, we're going to have a problem.
DENISE WARREN: We sure will.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Is this a reasonable analogy, that in fact you're getting a core audience who's willing to - I think Clay Shirky referred to it as... | newsdial-824 | 1 | 501 | 970 | |
newsdial-824::2 | I mean, this model was not designed to get everybody who comes to our website to pay. Clay is absolutely right in terms of the distribution of the audience, and I think this is true for most publishers. The vast majority of people come and turn one article or two articles. | newsdial-824 | 2 | 971 | 1,244 | |
newsdial-990::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Let's see if we can get another caller in. Let's go to Richard, and Richard with us from Wichita.
RICHARD: Yes. Real quick question. It was commented that Freddie Mac sold off the rights to collect the principal in the home loans, and I would like to know who bought those rights and what percentage of... | newsdial-990 | 0 | 0 | 485 | |
newsdial-990::1 | The takeaway in all of that is that the - those rights were sold off into the market, so investors all over the world potentially could have bought them. Critics of these deals also say that, look, if Freddie Mac had just gone out and sold these mortgages in a simple fashion, it would have gotten more money for them th... | newsdial-990 | 1 | 486 | 1,019 | |
newsdial-990::2 | Richard, sorry if we can't be more precise than that...
NEAL CONAN, HOST: ...but that's kind of the way these commodities work. We thank you for the call. And more on this story later today on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Chris Arnold, thanks very much for your time. | newsdial-990 | 2 | 1,020 | 1,281 | |
newsdial-914::0 | BERGMAN: But I would say that after weeks of researching for this New York Times piece that you mentioned, I would sum up and say that most of the leadership of Israel, including Mossad's current assessment, military intelligence and others, all of them agreed that the timeline is very different, that Iran would be abl... | newsdial-914 | 0 | 0 | 528 | |
newsdial-914::1 | Therefore, unless something happens and the Iranians agree suddenly to all conditions posed by the international community - but unless something unexpected is happening, my assessment is that the leadership of Israel would take the decision knowing that it would lead to a possible problematic outcome.
BERGMAN: And we ... | newsdial-914 | 1 | 529 | 915 | |
newsdial-914::2 | But knowing that it might lead to these outcomes - but when comparing the possible outcomes, including rockets fired at Israel (unintelligible) cities, including terrorist attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets overseas, but banishing these as problematic and as tragic as they can be with the possibility of Iran be... | newsdial-914 | 2 | 916 | 1,340 | |
newsdial-933::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. The fine art of the pitch can be difficult to master, but all of us take a shot at least from time to time. We try to convince the boss on a great idea, persuade investors to back our invention, sell an editor on a story, a producer on a film o... | newsdial-933 | 0 | 0 | 527 | |
newsdial-933::1 | So we want to hear from those of you who get pitched all the time. Bosses, editors, producers, investors, tell us, What have you heard that turned your head or turned your stomach? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF... | newsdial-933 | 1 | 528 | 970 | |
newsdial-933::2 | His daughter tells us how she found out her dad was a civil rights hero. But first, Lori Greiner has been called the queen of QVC, where she hosts the show "Clever and Unique Creations." She's also one of the sharks, the judges on ABC's "Shark Tank," and she joins us by phone from Westchester in Pennsylvania. Nice to h... | newsdial-933 | 2 | 971 | 1,313 | |
newsdial-777::0 | ADOLFO QUINONES: Yeah.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Did he take an active part in saying, do this, don't do that?
ADOLFO QUINONES: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Don Cornelius is - was very hands-on with respect to the show. But, you know, he was smart enough to allow us to be who were, you know, and he just created an environment. But every ... | newsdial-777 | 0 | 0 | 433 | |
newsdial-777::1 | Or he was standing back of the "Soul Train" backdrop there that looked like the back of the train, and he'd say, you know, during the breaks or whatever, he'd say, (unintelligible). You still acting crazy? Or...
ADOLFO QUINONES: ...he would shout to different people. So he knew us, and he would talk to us. And every no... | newsdial-777 | 1 | 434 | 885 | |
newsdial-777::2 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Here's an email we have from Matt in Portland, Oregon, As a kid growing up in suburban Washington, D.C. in the 1970s, I remember sitting in front of the TV with my bowl of SpaghettiOs hose to watch "Soul Train." I recall being mesmerized by the show and all of the cool dancers. The opening animation a... | newsdial-777 | 2 | 886 | 1,410 | |
newsdial-777::3 | I'm now passing on my love of that music to my five-year-old. We have are own "Soul Train" dance parties in the living room. The kid has got some funky moves. RIP, Don Cornelius. That's it from... | newsdial-777 | 3 | 1,411 | 1,607 | |
newsdial-475::0 | STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Why, when he knew the consequences, did Paul Manafort lie?
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Well, that question remains after a judge ruled that Manafort did intentionally lie. He had a plea deal with the special counsel investigating Russia's involvement in U.S. politics. He was supposed to give truthful infor... | newsdial-475 | 0 | 0 | 595 | |
newsdial-475::1 | But it would reflect so adversely on the president that he would lose his chance of a pardon.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: That is one theory. What can we learn from the nature of the lies? NPR Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson is on the line once again. Carrie, good morning.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
STE... | newsdial-475 | 1 | 596 | 970 | |
newsdial-475::2 | CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that Paul Manafort lied about a payment to a law firm that apparently did some work for him, about some other unrelated criminal investigation, and then here's the most important thing. Judge Jackson found Manafort lied about the nature of his interactions with Kon... | newsdial-475 | 2 | 971 | 1,613 | |
newsdial-904::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: And the - of course, the threat to intervene has to be backed up by the willingness to intervene, no?
SLAUGHTER: It does. This is important. It's important, too, though, for the credibility of the West as a whole. When the West - when the U.N. authorized intervention in Libya, it authorized interventi... | newsdial-904 | 0 | 0 | 597 | |
newsdial-904::1 | SLAUGHTER: We did that in Libya. At this point, as you pointed out, there are many thousands of people who've died in Syria. That's - if that continues, at some point, the credibility of the international community is on the line. I think, though, we can't intervene unless there is a pretty unified request to begin wit... | newsdial-904 | 1 | 598 | 1,157 | |
newsdial-904::2 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: And if the Russians, as we have every reason to expect, unless they change their minds, veto, what then? | newsdial-904 | 2 | 1,158 | 1,280 | |
newsdial-963::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: We would like to hear from Japanese-Americans today. How did you find out about your family's experience during the Second Word War? 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. And Michelle is on the line calling from Tulsa.
MICHELLE: Hi.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Hi. Go ahead, please.
MICHELLE: Sure. My grandfathe... | newsdial-963 | 0 | 0 | 406 | |
newsdial-963::1 | They could go to Japanese interment or join the Army to show that they were Americans, and they felt like they wanted to be Americans, so he joined the Army and he was part of the 442nd.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: Famous battalion that fought in Italy.
MICHELLE: Yes. Yes. He was very decorated. I have a wall, you know, covered ... | newsdial-963 | 1 | 407 | 824 | |
newsdial-963::2 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: That is an incredible honor and it is something - I believe that unit was more decorated than any comparable unit in the U.S. Army.
MICHELLE: Yes, they were given the most dangerous missions, you know, and he has some amazing stories.
NEAL CONAN, HOST: I wonder - I've spoken with many people who serve... | newsdial-963 | 2 | 825 | 1,292 | |
newsdial-950::0 | MARIANNA: Hi there. You know, it's fascinating listening to this. (Unintelligible) and I work as the marketing and community relations director for a local firm. And my pet peeve when being pitched is when someone assumes that I'm not the one to make the decisions because I am a young woman.
MARIANNA: I love when they ... | newsdial-950 | 0 | 0 | 488 | |
newsdial-950::1 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: Or it ain't getting there, even if there is somebody else higher, because, yeah...
MARIANNA: Right, absolutely. Well, you know, the buck stops with me, and my company's bucks stop with me, and you know, it's a real shame when someone assumes that I'm there to show them to a conference room or serve th... | newsdial-950 | 1 | 489 | 997 | |
newsdial-950::2 | BRIDGET WHALEN HUNNICUTT: Well, you know, I think it's actually - she's probably in a rare situation. Most of us do have to go back and report in to other bosses. Even when you get in sometimes with the GM, they have to report to the CEO what they're doing. So actually, I - you don't want to let the person you're meeti... | newsdial-950 | 2 | 998 | 1,455 | |
newsdial-131::0 | Mr. DAVID MCDONALD (Democratic superdelegate): My memory is that he was a more difficult ally for them before the 2000 race for president than after. And that afterwards, when he could begin to see he might run again, he seems to have been far more supportive of Bush. And I think it's the last eight years, the actual B... | newsdial-131 | 0 | 0 | 434 | |
newsdial-131::1 | DAVID MCDONALD (Democratic superdelegate): I would like her to put in the same tenacity into getting a White House administration that's Democratic and a broad mandate from the public to carry across an agenda that both Houses of Congress will support. And I think, from the years I've known her that's what she wants to... | newsdial-131 | 1 | 435 | 1,015 | |
newsdial-131::2 | Mr. DAVID MCDONALD (Democratic superdelegate): Thanks. | newsdial-131 | 2 | 1,016 | 1,070 | |
newsdial-969::0 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: In a recent presidential Republican debate, Turkey - under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - was described as a place where the murder rate against women has increased 1,400 percent, where press freedom has declined to the level of Russia, and where Turkey's prime minister has embraced Hamas and t... | newsdial-969 | 0 | 0 | 454 | |
newsdial-969::1 | But he also goes to point out that Turkey's government just installed an advanced radar to track missiles from Iran, joined the NATO intervention in Libya, hosts the Syrian opposition, and amended its constitution to expand rights for women, ethnic minorities and unions - all at a complicated and sometimes infuriating ... | newsdial-969 | 1 | 455 | 919 | |
newsdial-969::2 | NEAL CONAN, HOST: If you have questions about Turkey's role in the region and its value as a model, give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email, talk@npr.org. Jackson Diehl is deputy editorial page editor at The Post and writes a biweekly foreign affairs column and joins us from a studio at the newspaper. Nice to have you back... | newsdial-969 | 2 | 920 | 1,356 | |
newsdial-541::0 | SUSANA CORDOVA: It's been a very productive day. I think we made a lot of progress. And I'm looking forward to getting back together at the table tomorrow.
JENNY BRUNDIN, BYLINE: All schools except preschools are open. But many fear how long the strike will go on. Erika Righter is a single mom of two. Righter's mother ... | newsdial-541 | 0 | 0 | 449 | |
newsdial-541::1 | JENNY BRUNDIN, BYLINE: More than half of teachers didn't report to work Tuesday. A third day of bargaining continues today. For NPR News, I'm Jenny Brundin in Denver. | newsdial-541 | 1 | 450 | 616 | |
newsdial-901::0 | But the big question is: Can he afford the political price for that? Because this will come on a huge human cost. We're talking about thousands and thousands of civilians that he has to kill in the process.
But the big question is: So imposing order, in effect, means a huge number of casualties from civilians. So of co... | newsdial-901 | 0 | 0 | 606 |
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