Ethicist

NPR | By Jacki Lyden,

Randy Cohen

Published August 3, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Guest host Jacki Lyden is joined by Randy Cohen, writer of "The Ethicist" column in The New York Times Magazine. This week, they discuss the case of a woman whose former husband is demanding that she refund alimony he paid out to her in excess of the amount she was due.

Jacki Lyden

Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.

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Randy Cohen

Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.

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