Musue Haddad of Liberia went on a two-day trip to visit her parents in 1989. While she was on this trip, civil war broke out in her country. Haddad has not seen her parents or the rest of her family since.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
Mamek Khadem's soundtrack for an art installation commemorating the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
Linda Gray Sexton describes in vivid detail her own, lifelong battle against depression and suicide.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Louise Barnett, author of tells Jim Fleming about the case of Captain Andrew Geddes, who was tried and convicted of slandering a fellow officer, even though the man was clearly guilty of sexually abusing his daughter.
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
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