Search results for

Scott speaks with journalist and host for member station WBUR's news talk show "Connections" about the Senate race in Massachusetts. It pits Republican governor William Weld against the Democratic incumbent John Kerry.

Schorr/ Simon: Scott and NPR's Dan Schorr review the week's news.

Scott talks to Joe Nocera, contributing writer for Fortune Magazine, about two money investment ideas whose origins can be traced to New England: Ponzi schemes and mutual funds.

Media analyst Mark Hertsgaard (HERTZ-gard) compares edia coverage of the Reagan and Clinton presidencies.

- Daniel speaks with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who's covered the Middle East for more than 20 years. She's written a new book, called "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East" (Simon and Shuster). Judith and Danny talk about some of the Arab leaders attending the Cairo summit: Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Hafez el-Assad of Syria.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS:NORA RAUM AND ANNE BOOZELL PE

Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.

Danny tells a story of fraud and greed in the art world. Late last year, David Ramus, (RAY-mus) a former art dealer, was convicted in an Atlanta (Georgia) court of fraud. The owner of a painting would ask Ramus to sell a painting on consignment. Ramus would sell the painting,but not tell the owner. Instead, Ramus would keep the money for himself. Ramus now says he never set out to cheat anybody and that he "chose clearly a wrong thing to do." The plot thickens: Last year, the publisher HarperCollins paid Ramus a one-million dollar advance for his first novel, THIEF OF LIGHT, a story about fraud set in the high-stakes 1980's art world. Ramus says he will use part of the proceeds from the book to pay back his former art clients. In this piece, we'll hear from Ramus; Atlanta journalist Vincent Coppola; Larry Ashmead, Executive Editor and Vice President, HarperCollins Publishers; and Constance Lowenthal of the International Foundation for Art Research.

the cities to their homes for New Year celebrations.

by President Yeltsin declaring his candidacy for this June's election.

Two weeks ago Congress passed a sweeping new telecommunications bill, the biggest overhaul of telecommunications law in 62 years. The bill contains a provision (the Communications Decency Act) which makes obscenity on the internet illegal, punishable by fines of up to $100,000 and prison sentences to "knowingly" transmit to minors material deemed "indecent" on on-line services. Indecency is defined as any communication that "in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs." Terry Gross will be talking to several individuals with differing points of view:BRUCE TAYLOR, President and Chief Counsel of the National Law Center for Children and Families. His organization is a resource and education center which assists law enforcement and prosecutors in the enforcement of obscenity and child exploitation laws. He helped draft the legislation in the Communications Decency Act. (The National Law Center Children and Families is located in Fairfax, VA, (703) 691-4626.

-NPR'S Andy Bowers reports from Sarajevo on the seizure by NATO forces of what they call a Muslim terrorist training camp just outside the city. Eleven people, including three thought to be Iranians, were arrested at the camp, along with a large arms cache, including rifles, machine guns and booby traps. U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia, says elements of the mainly Muslim Bosnian government may have been involved in training some of the men to carry out terrorist acts.