Complexity and Controversy

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Many candidates believe your choices in the grocery store provide valuable clues to your politics. In the first part of today’s Underreported, we ask how candidates use consumer histories to target voters. Then, we find out why the leader of a Nomadic group in Colombia recently committed suicide. And Richard Ford tells us about the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel Independence Day. Also, Cynthia Nixon talks about her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Plus, a conversation about the complexities of cross-cultural adoptions.

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