For Your Ears Only - May 6th, 2012

Podcast: 

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I. BILLBOARD

II. OBAMA'S OSAMA LEGACY

James Kitfield, National Journal senior correspondent

III. RE-OCCUPIED

Todd Gitlin, Columbia University professor of journalism and sociology, author of "Occupy Nation: The Roots, The Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street" (iT Books/HarperCollins, May 1, 2012)

IV. POLITICS: WORSE THAN IT LOOKS

Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute resident fellow, co-author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" (Basic Books, May 1 2012)

V. TV: THE KOVACS KAPERS

Ben Model, film and television historian, archivist for the estates of TV pioneers Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, guest curator of the Kovacs-Adams exhibit, April 27-May 27, at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street), Astoria, NY 11106 (www.movingimage.us, www.erniekovacs.com, www.ediadams.com)

VI. MIND-BODY MAINSTREAM

Koshin Paley Ellison, Co-Founder, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, www.zencare.org

VII. CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: Lessons from Lincoln – 5/8/11

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University, author of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" (W.W.Norton), winner of the 2011 Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize