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January 23, 2008
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RATE CUT AND THE CONSUMER

What does the Federal Reserve’s biggest interest rate cut in two decades mean for the consumer? Financial analysts say it will help consumers if they’ve got good credit and want to borrow for big-ticket items. USA Today reporter Sandra Block gives us her take.

NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY?

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What internal divisions within the Republican Party are embodied by the current crop of presidential candidates? David Frum, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Rick Klein, senior political reporter for ABC’s The Note, offer their perspectives.

PRIEST M.B.A

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Villanova University will launch the country’s first Master in Science of Church Management this spring, offering priests an M.B.A. education. Our guests are Professor Charles Zech. Director of Villanova’s Center for the Study of Church Management, and Father Marc Alexander, Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese in Honolulu, Hawaii.

LETTERS

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We respond to your letters and e-mails.

TOM BROKAW

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We speak with veteran newsman Tom Brokaw about his book “Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the 60’s and Today.”

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