Mona Lisa Smile (Katherine is showing her students the slides of art.) Betty: What is that? Katherine: You tell me. Carcass, by 1)Soutine, 1925. Susan: It’s not on the 2)syllabus. Katherine: No, it’...
A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley: Was this before or after you got the telegram? Blanche: Telegram? Telegram…Oh, as a matter of fact, my wire... Stanley: As a matter of fact, there wasn’t no wire...
Godfather Marlon Brando We start tonight with Marlon Brando. He was 80 when he died of lung failure yesterday in Los Angeles. As an actor, Brando’s talent was 1)unparalleled. As a man, he was someth...
The Closest Thing to Crazy How can I think I’m standing strong, Yet feel the air beneath my feet? How can happiness feel so wrong? How can misery feel so sweet? How can you let me watch you sleep, T...
Life Chatting Room: Special Guest On-line I’m Alex Coyle. Today I’ll be talking to 007.007, hello! Thank you for coming in. Thank you, Alex, for inviting me. Perhaps you could begin by introducing...
Making Choices Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience. Today I would like to begin with my personal experience. Before getting enrolled in college, I had been 1)bombarded wit...
Ronald Reagan: A President of Wit and Humor Reagan: The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things; he is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. It is a r...
News Spotlight Politics The 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 93. Reagan fought a ten-year battle with 1)Alzheimer’s disease and had been suffering from 2)pn...
Old, But Not Retired Drop into the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts. It’s six a.m. and Rosa Finnegan is arriving for work, one of 35 people employed by this small manufacturing outfit....
Donald Trump, The Master of the Deal The institutions that finance what I have, they happen to be in love with Donald Trump, but they’re not in love with me because I’m a 1)nice guy or anything. T...
Freddy Adu: Wonder Kid of the Soccer World Freddy Adu is 14 years old and that makes him the youngest pro athlete in any 1)team sport in more than a century and at 500,000 dollars a year, the highest...
Consider This Written by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Read by Jonathan Else General Douglas MacArthur was turned down for admission to West Point not once but twice. But he tried a third time,...
The 1)Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain Read by Marsh McCandless In 2)compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, 3)ga...
Lean Odds for Pisa’s Tower The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the most intensely observed building in the world. Prof. John Burland (Imperial College of Science and Technology): When you come in through t...
Greek Olympic Odyssey Greece, an ancient land; proud to be described as the cradle of western civilization. At every turn, memories of a glorious past. Two and a half thousand years ago, the eastern M...
