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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1
THE COLOR OF OUR PAST…AND OUR FUTURE
He promised to make it one of his presidential
legacies, but Clinton’s panel on race relations has gone the way of universal
health care-- ridiculed by the experts and obscured by the presidential
crisis. Tonight’s guests, Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain civil
rights leader Medgar Evers, former chairperson of the NAACP, and author
of Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was
Meant to Be (Little, Brown), and Farai Chideya, an ABC
reporter and author of The Color of our Future (William Morrow)
will revive the discussion and consider whether post-Civil Rights Era progress
is enough for a country which, by the year 2050 will have more nonwhite
than white Americans.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Your kid (or grandkid) is certainly the most
brilliant 6 year-old in town. Why, she understands abstract symbols, learns
French quicker than you, and can already organize information systematically!
Tonight’s panel of psychologists and linguists will explain the stages
of mental development for children, from infancy to early childhood, and
enlighten you as to why your child is so darned intelligent.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
DAVID HALBERSTAM
He’s back and, true to form, he has written
another book for the ages; one that is impeccably timed to today’s headlines:
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made (Random
House). Like no other on-the-ground reporter can, Halberstam provides
the color behind Jordan’s epic career—his family life, his stance with
coaches and team members and his drive to become the greatest player ever.
Halberstam on Jordan (and many other things, no doubt), tonight.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4
MY KINDA TOWN
From the first steps toward modernization in
1833 to today, the city of Chicago has taken on many identities. Whether
a cowpoke trading town or a booming metropolis; a "city of broad
shoulders" or a "Windy City;" the host to the baroque 1893
Columbian World’s Exposition or to thousands of immigrants; Chicago’s
history is a study in civic leadership, technological advancements, and
ethnic settlements. According to Perry Duis, author of Challenging
Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (University of Illinois
Press), it is also a tribute to Chicagoans, whose determination made
this city work. From its humble beginnings to its bright future, tonight’s
panel of experts, including Duis, will review this city’s remarkable history.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
WINTER TRAVEL GETAWAYS
If the lingering effects of the Blizzard of
’99 have made life impossibly dull and gray, then perhaps it’s time to
consider a visit to a distant land, filled with sun, verdant landscapes
and placid blue waters. Tonight’s guests, including Patricia Piacente,
from the Let’s Talk Travel agency, and Chicago Tribune travel writer Alan
Solomon, will treat you to a tour of the hottest and coolest getaways
of the season and the best deals that money can buy. Bon Voyage!
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8
GENOCIDE
Philip Gourevitch’s critically acclaimed
book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our
Families: Stories from Rwanda (Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
is an anatomy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which the Hutu majority
was called on to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. He documents the
mass displacements, the quests for justice, the plight of the survivors,
the refugee camps and the inadequate responses by humanitarian organizations.
Tonight’s panel features Gourevitch and Doug Cassel, Director of
the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University,
in a discussion about the truths and horrors of genocide in this century.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
What’s on the schedule tonight? Frankly, we
don’t know yet, but we will by 9 pm, so tune us in!
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
SEXUAL INTIMIDATION AND THE LAW
There are too many stories about date rapes
on college campuses, doctors taking advantage of their patients, and stranger
assaults. After thirty years of intense legal scrutiny, why do the laws
against rape not fully protect women from abuse? Steve Schulhofer,
professor of law at the University of Chicago, poses this question in
his new book, Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure
of the Law (Harvard University Press). He joins tonight’s panel
to analyze why this heinous crime and nightmarish trauma is so easily
dismissed in the courts, what valid "consent" is, and how a
woman can protect her sexual autonomy.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
KEVIN PHILLIPS
The country may be poised to traverse the bridge
to the 21st Century, but do constitutional turmoil and increasingly
divisive political and religious debates threaten our crossing to safety?
It is par for the course, according to Kevin Phillips. In his new
book, The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
(Basic Books), he traces the development of the American empire
from the 17th Century onward through its battles—military,
political, and religious—and asserts that these conflicts actually strengthened
the social fabric of this country. Tonight, a foremost political theorist,
historian and, incidentally, one of the masterminds behind President Nixon’s
1968 victory, will muse on how the lessons of our forefathers can guide
us to the next century, and to remain the world’s most powerful cultural
force.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
If you’ve already downloaded this schedule
from your hard drive to your hand-held computer; if you’ve been beeped
in the last five minutes by your pocket voice pager system; if you’re
simultaneously watching last night’s television program, reading this
guide and ordering in Chinese food, ALL on the same high definition
screen, then tonight’s show will surely interest you. What does the multimedia
future hold in store for your personal life? Ed Curran joins our
souped-up, know-it-all panel of consumer commentators to clue you in on
the coolest toys, the latest gizmos and the best buys in all things video,
electronic and otherwise.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Do not fear, Extension 720 is not on holiday
this week. We are, however, still in the process of putting final touches
on these programs. We do hope you will search the website for further
information, once it is available.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
USE AND ABUSE OF LANGUAGE
You say potato, I say potatah; you say tomato,
I say tomatah; but tonight’s panel of writers and editors won’t call the
whole thing off. Instead they’ll come loaded with examples of bad English,
both spoken and written, and discuss the preponderance of grammatical
and syntactical errors that plague the language. So if you think yourself
an astute student of Strunk and White, Merriam-Webster or even Sister
Mary, your 5th grade English teacher, tune in tonight, for
this imminently practical, utterly informative program on the use and
abuse of language.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
STRATFORD-UPON-WGN
Four real live Chicago actors, including the
host of WGN’s very own "Let’s Talk Gardening," Michael Nowak,
and famed Court Theatre performer Craig Spidle take to the
microphones and perform scenes from some of the greatest plays in the
Western canon. Will it be Moliere? Shakespeare? Mamet? Maybe a little
of each? Find out during tonight’s celebration of words, wit, and wisdom
at our very own theatre-on-the-dial.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
CRIMES OF THE CENTURY
The most highly publicized, controversial crimes
of the century also saw the most highly publicized controversial judicial
proceedings of the century. The celebrated trials of Loeb and Leopold,
Bruno Hauptman, the Scottsboro "boys," Alger Hiss, and, of course,
O.J. Simpson, exposed the unsavory side of the American judicial system,
often marked by sloppy police work, overzealous prosecution, judicial
incompetence and a myriad of race, class and ethnic issues. In Crimes
of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson (Northwestern
University Press), co-authors Gilbert Geis and Leigh B.
Bienen present in-depth case studies of these crimes and trials. Bienen
joins tonight’s panel to shed light on the sources of criminal behavior
and the administration of criminal justice.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Tune in tonight, at 9 p.m., for a special surprise,
Extension 720-style: Intelligent conversation with…someone intelligent.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
ON DEMOCRACY
Political science, politics, the study of government—call
it what you may—is an amorphous yet inclusive field of study that investigates
policy, law, sociology, economics and history. Against this backdrop,
tonight’s guest, Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor of Political Science
at Yale University, and author of On Democracy (Yale University
Press), assesses his field of study and discusses why the preservation
of democratic ideas and ideals around the world today, and in the future,
is crucial.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
We’ve left tonight’s program open to examine
a fascinating topic, interview a fascinating author or cover a fascinating
news story.
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