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Students gathered last night at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall for an advance screening of the upcoming PBS documentary “Race to Execution.” The film focuses on two stories of African-Americans on death row. Madison Hobley was sentenced to death for an arson case that took the lives of seven people. Robert Tarver was convicted for the murder of a white businessman. According to the film’s producers, the film is meant to highlight a bias in the American legal system with respect to prosecuting and executing minorities convicted...
...Pelosi her four-day "coronation," as right-wing wags have dubbed it? The events themselves are hardly ostentatious: there's a mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been left...
...eBay and PBS's Antiques Roadshow, where people have come to believe that every relic has more than sentimental value, it's not entirely surprising that the stolen document market is heating up. In the past, a handful of major auction houses handled the bidding on historic documents. "Now, with the World Wide Web, your market is not just who is subscribing to a preprinted catalogue from Christie or Sotheby's," says Bruce Craig, the outgoing director of the National Coalition for History. Craig adds that Internet bidders tend to pay "far more than a document is worth because they...
...BLEAK HOUSE (PBS...
Both Smiley and Colbert have their own late-night TV shows, but “The Tavis Smiley Show,” which airs on PBS (WGBH/Channels 2 and 44 locally), bears little resemblance to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” Smiley specializes in conducting wide-ranging interviews with interesting people—both famous and not so famous—while Colbert specializes in skewering politicians and the right-wing pundits upon whom his character is based. It’s no wonder that Colbert drew a larger college crowd...