This Week on Radio

September 08 - 14, 2008 (Program #803)    


Lives In the Sand: American Presidents and the Middle East      
Patrick Tyler, former Chief Correspondent for the New York Times for Issues Concerning Domestic and Foreign Policy

Patrick Tyler served in capitals as distant as Moscow, Beijing and Cairo in his 30 year journalistic career. He also has extensive experience in covering the U.S. Congress, Pentagon and White House. In this conversation he brings his considerable international background to bear in his analysis of American policy toward the Middle East as U.S. Presidents have developed them since the mid-20th century.

This Week on TV

September 10 - 14, 2008 (Episode #1712)    


Who Will Make It Rain?      
Amy Wilkinson, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center

There is a fresh new wind swirling through the worlds of philanthropy and social activism. It is detectable in the large – scale grants of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and in hundreds of small local philanthropic projects. It is a wedding of good business practice to the cause of social progress. Practitioners of this art are known as social entrepreneurs and their strategies are energizing the development world. Particularly effective are the small scale micro loans made to the rural and urban poor for individual projects Amy Wilkinson explains the dynamics of this new field.

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