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Wednesday March 24, 2004
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March Madness is in full swing, and some say it's time for "student-athletes" to take academics as seriously as they take basketball. And is the talk of steriods behind the slimmer frames of major league ballplayers this spring training?
Jess Atkinson, Sports Commentator
George Solomon, Columnist and former Sports Editor, The Washington Post; Visiting Professor, Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland; also former ESPN Ombudsman
Ethiopia is often called "the cradle of humanity." Now, twenty years after journalist and historian Anthony Mockler wrote a definitive history of this fascinating country, he's updated it, complete with the internal struggles that have kept the country in the news.
Anthony Mockler, author of "Haile Selassie's War"
Dr. Alem Hailu, Professor of African Studies, Howard University
From the phantom black man who Susan Smith alleged kidnapped her children to America's racial identity, poet Cornelius Eady talks about his latest work and the craft of poetry.
Cornelius Eady, poet; professor of literature, American University
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