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TMT and Mauna Kea; Shakespeare Competition; Neal Conan Becomes a Farmer; Author, Doug Corleone

Mid-Pacific Institute

Thursday, April 30th – from HPR2, it’s The Conversation

TMT and Mauna Kea Conversation: Williamson Chang

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Williamson Chang

Williamson Chang is a Professor at Richardson School of Law. He teaches Conflict of Laws, Jurisprudence, Legal Practice, Legal Aspects of Water Resources in Hawai‘i, and Business Associations. His op-ed related to Mauna Kea and the TMT appears in the Hawaii Independent.

  • Intro Music:  Popoki Slack Key by Ray Kane
  • Outro Music:  The Beauty of Mauna Kea by Keola Beamer and George Winston

                             

Shakespeare Competition: Sarah Spalding 

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Sarah Spalding

Sarah Spalding is a Senior at Mid-Pacific who just got home from placing first in the English-Speaking Union's National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center in New York City.     She was up against 56 other district champions and won a full-tuition scholarship to attend the Young Actors' Summer School at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, for two weeks this summer.

  • Intro Music:  Too Late A Week (Music From the HBO Film "As You Like It") by Patrick Doyle
  • Outro Music:  The Forest of Arden (Music From the HBO Film "As You Like It") by Patrick Doyle

                          

Neal Conan Becomes a Farmer

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Neal Conan

Neal Conan is the former host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation. He has been a war correspondent in the Middle East and NPR bureau chief in London and New York. Now he’s a mac nut farmer and still a radio guy. We’ll see how he combines both lives in our weekly conversation from the farm. 

  • Intro Music:  Human – Tin Tin (Out Mix) by Pretenders
  • Outro Music: Whee Ha Swing by Ledward Kaapana

               

HBMF Author: Doug Corleone

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Doug Corleone

Doug Corleone is the author of Gone Cold, Payoff, and other novels under his own name, and is the author of the latest continuation of Robert Ludlum’s novels, the Janson Equation, which will be published in June.  He’ll be at this weekend’s Hawaii Book and Music Festival.

  • Intro Music:  Noire Clarinet by Andrew Hale
  • Outro Music:  Temptation, Pt. 3 by Andrew Hale and SImon Hale
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