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Journalist and author Joe Conason weighs in on Social Security and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock explains how one can learn by just listening.
Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Award-winning journalist Joe Conason is noted for his liberal positions. He writes a daily Web log on Salon.com and a popular political column for The New York Observer. His reporting on the Clinton presidency brought Conason national media attention. He's also authored several books, including The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill Clinton, which was the basis for a documentary. His latest is The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an icon of late 20th century modern music. He played with the jazz greats, including Miles Davis and Donald Byrd and went on to become an Oscar- and multiple Grammy-winning musician and composer. The Chicago native took up piano at age 7. Classically trained, he was performing Mozart with symphony orchestras by age 11. Hancock has scored a number of feature films and is devoted to several educational and philanthropic endeavors, including the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.