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NPR

April 11, 1998



Host: Dan Coffey

Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell

In studio players this week:
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section (Washington, DC)
•Peter Sagal, Playwright (New York)
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine (Boston)

"Headlines We Wish We'd Seen"

Round 1: Week in Review
Faces of Mars, The Tooth Will Set You Free, Bulgaria...Automobile Graveyard? and more...

"Why Should We Know Who You Are?" (mystery newsmaker) Charles Moskos, professor of sociology at Northwestern University. Moskos is the architect of the Clinton Administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military. The policy was back in the news this week, after a report that the military was discharging 67% more gays and lesbians than it did in the years before "don't ask, don't tell" was adopted.

Round 2: "We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listener Segments)
•Creative Tax Writeoff Attempts

"Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo" (people, entertainment news)


"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listener Segments)
•New Kosher Product for Passover Round 3: "Lightning True or False"
Kids: The Most Effective Parental Nags Revealed, Plastic Currency In the Works?, An Unplanned Moment for The BBC and more...

"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listener Segments)
•The origin of "the Easter bunny"