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...Going from backstage to center stage, four of the principal minds behind Obama and John McCain's campaigns convened in the John F. Kennedy Forum for a post-election retrospective moderated by PBS anchor Gwen Ifill...
...chief pollster, Bill McInturff, sat beside Davis in a white shirt with an open collar. "Here we are in the year that we elected the first African-American President, and I get to share the stage with four white guys," joked the moderator, Gwen Ifill, a correspondent for PBS who was still hobbling on a bad ankle from a spill she took before moderating the vice-presidential debate in October...
...Think of your house as a boat," says Richard Trethewey, the mechanical systems expert for PBS' home-improvement series This Old House. "If all the holes in your house that are letting out air were letting water in, it would sink your boat." (Listen to Trethewey talk about how to improve the energy efficiency of your home on this week's Greencast...
...first summer in the States, Cooke drove West, in a car he bought for $45, recording the country's vast grandeur and roadside vignettes with a movie camera he bought for $22. (Some of his road movies are included in the PBS show.) Destination: Hollywood. He had written to the Manchester Guardian saying he'd arranged interviews with top stars, and to the stars saying he was from the Guardian. Both claims were premature but prescient. He'd stay at the paper for the next 70 years, and he instantly befriended the cinemarati. One of his first film works, which...
...enough for Cooke that PBS viewers in America, and BBC listeners around the world, considered him a spirited, spirit-lifting member of their families. His Letters broadcasts often began with remarks about the view from his Fifth Avenue window, and letters from many countries, which bore the address "Alistair Cooke, Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser...