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Deborah Tannen

By Laura Knoy on Monday, August 27, 2001.

Linguist and author Deborah Tannen is our guest. Her new book is “I Only Say This Because I love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives.” Tannen is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend. Laura Knoy talks with Tannen about improving communication in families. This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.

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Judson Hale of Yankee Magazine

By John Walters on Monday, August 27, 2001.

He’ll talk about his more than 40 years at Yankee and the Old Farmers Almanac. Hale reflects on New England people and culture and the challenge of moving Yankee in new directions, while retaining its loyal readers. Yankee Magazine is on-line at www.newengland.com

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Talking About Quality: Testing

By Jon Greenberg on Monday, August 27, 2001.

NHPR's Jon Greenberg recently spoke with a half a dozen teachers. They spoke about the times when they feel the public at large understands the realities of teaching, and the times when they don't.

As Jon Greenberg reports, these educators were especially leery of what the public knows about state-wide tests.

Read more and give your thoughts at Quality Schools link.

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If the Governor's Leaving, Who Will Take Her Place

By John Milne on Monday, August 27, 2001.

As expected Governor Jeanne Shaheen took a step closer to announcing she may run for the U.S. Senate. That possibility opens up the race for the corner office here in Concord.
Political observer John Milne provides a lay of the land.

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