Basic Brown

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The controversial former San Francisco Democratic mayor Willie Brown explains how he's managed to lose only one election throughout his entire political career. Also: the extraordinary life of Serbia’s legendary warlord, Zeliko Raznatovitch. And a psychologist tries to explain how US soldiers became torturers at Abu Ghraib.

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