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  •  for the week of April 3 - 7, 2000

    Note: All segments listed for tonight's broadcast are subject to change. Transcripts
    are usually available online no more than 24 hours after a segment airs. Segments
    broadcast on Fridays are available the following Monday.


    Days of the week


    Friday, April 7, 2000


    Tug of War
    Owen B. Cooper, the general counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Services, gives the government's perspective on the latest events in the Elian Gonzalez case. realaudio

    Roger Bernstein, one of the lawyers representing Elian Gonzalez's U.S. relatives in Miami, gives his perspective on the case that will decide the Cuban boy's fate. online special realaudio .

    The Budget Battle Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports on the continuing budget battle.

    Political Wrap
    Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot and Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant offer end-of-the-week commentary. realaudio

    Garden of Angels
    Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the abandoned babies in America.


    Thursday, April 6, 2000


    Tug of War
    Kwame Holman examines the turns in the Elian Gonzalez case since Elian's father's arrival in the U.S. today.realaudio online special

    Breaking the Code
    Craig Venter, president and chief scientific officer of Celera Genomics, discusses the new developments on mapping the human genetic code. realaudio online special

    Digital Magic
    A host of filmmakers are using the new technology to produce new films and documentaries that would never have been made otherwise. Spencer Michels examines the new world of digital film-making.

    On the Chain Gang
    Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with author Walter Mosley about his new book Working on the Chain Gang which examines what a world without consumer capitalism might look like.

    The Hungry Eye
    Walker Evans on the art of creating with a camera.


    Wednesday, April 5, 2000


    Wild Time on Wall Street
    Ash Rajan, Senior Vice President with Prudential Securities, Hugh Johnson Chief Investment Strategist at First Albany Corporation, E. David Ellington,Chairman and CEO of NETNOIR, and Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, discuss the trends and swings on Wall Street. realaudio

    Future TVonline special
    Media Correspondent Terence Smith has part one of a two part series on digital media. Tonight's story examines how technology is changing the way we use television. realaudio

    The Legacy of Vietnam
    Presidential Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss are joined by journalist Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, Richard Norton Smith, historian and director of the President Ford Museum and Library, and Jonathan Holloway, assistant professor of African American Studies at Yale, in a discusison of the 25th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.


    Tuesday, April 4, 2000


    U.S. vs Microsoft online special
    Ray Suarez is joined by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein to discuss the federal antitrust case against Microsoft. realaudio

    Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Brad Smith responds to the government's ruling. realaudio

    High Tech Foods
    Business correspondent Paul Solmon reports on how biotechnology companies are working to convince consumers that genetically engineered food is safe.

    Camp Elian online special
    Media correspondent Terence Smith looks at the massive amount of media coverage surrounding 6-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez. Joining Smith are Mark Seibel, associate editor of the Miami Herald; Hodding Carter III, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Armando Guzman, a national correspondent for Univision Spanish-language news; and Susan Candiotti, a CNN correspondent in Miami. realaudio


    Monday, April 3, 2000


    Microsoft's Bad Day in Court
    Margret Warner is joined by Bill Kovacic, an antitrust professor at the George Washington University Law School, to discuss today's ruling by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson against Microsoft.online special realaudio

    Additional Analysis on Today's Microsoft ruling
    Ray Suarez is joined by C.Boyden Gray of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, who filed a brief on behalf of the Microsoft Corporation, Peter Coffee, technology editor at PC Week, Glen Manishin, former antitrust attorney at Department of Justice, Stanley Liebowitz, author of Winners and Losers and Microsoft:Competition and Antitrust in High Technology. realaudio

    Update: Mozambique
    Gwen Ifill updates the conditions after the floods in Mozambique with Jeanne Penvenne, associate professor of History at Tufts University, Charles Lyons, President of the U.S. fund for UNICEF, and Deogratias Symba, correspondent for Le Potentiel, a daily newspaper in the Democratic Republic of Congo. realaudio

    America's Music
    Essayist Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service considers the American Musical Theater and composer Stephen Sondheim

     
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