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Dan Bazile, an anchor for NewsChannel 13 Weekend Today, a weekend morning news show broadcast out of Albany, N.Y., spoke at MCLA yesterday, Thursday, Nov. 16. The lecture was sponsored by the MCLA chapter of the National Broadcasting Society.
Bazile spent several years as an actor and freelance writer before entering the television news business in 1999. […]

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“The Best of Our Knowledge # 842 ”
From WAMC’s website:
THE CHALLENGE OF INDECENT LANGUAGE IN CULTURE AND IN EDUCATION -
The conflict over swear words in language arises everyday in classrooms between students and teachers, and at home between parents and children. Some may look on this as a moral decline of society. […]

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Dialogue, as a literary form for philosophical investigation, has been largely dormant for a couple of millenia, punctuated only by brief resurgences (e.g.:  the Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century). Yet it is by far the most natural and inviting way to explore philosophical questions, as witness the perennial appeal of Plato’s Socratic dialogues. This book attempts […]

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