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Guest host: Matthew Felling
World-renowned negotiation expert William Ury has mediated everything from strikes in Kentucky coal mines to ethnic wars in the Middle East to conflicts at the dinner table. He joins us to share his strategy for saying no while still preserving a positive relationship.
William "Bill" Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project (formerly the Project on Preventing War), Harvard University Law School; also author of "The Power of A Positive No: How to say NO and Still Get to YES" (Bantam)
Guest host: Matthew Felling
In just a few years, Wikipedia has changed the way we research everything from the sublime to the obscure. Now, revelations that a paid editor used assumed a false identity has the user-driven public encyclopedia facing severe criticism. Wikipedia's co-founder addresses the controversy and talks about reforms being made.
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Guest host: Matthew Felling
Award-winning writer Kim Stanley Robinson's latest trilogy is set in a not-so-distant future where global warming has left D.C. struggling with problems brought on by a new Ice Age. Robinson talks with us about his twenty-plus year career as a sci-fi writer.
Kim Stanley Robinson, author, Sixty Days and Counting (Bantam Spectra)
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