Patt Morrison for Friday, 2/5/10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, February 5, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:39

Big Man on Campus

There are never any dull moments when it comes to the Los Angeles Unified School District, but the past two months have been particularly hectic.  President Obama’s changes to No Child Left Behind, charter schools, the removal of ineffective teachers, redesigned school report cards—Patt talks to LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines about the latest developments in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

 

Guests:

Ramon Cortines, Superintendent of LAUSD

IN STUDIO

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Bocuse D’Or

5.5 hours this Sunday, screaming fans, the most heated annual competition where competitors dish it out—no, it’s not the Super Bowl, it’s Bocuse d’Or, the world’s most prestigious cooking competition where the pressure and stakes could not be higher. The USA has never placed among the top three and the qualifying competition is underway right now. Patt checks in with an expert for the update.

 

Guest:

Andrew Friedman food writer; he has collaborated on more than twenty cookbooks and is the author most recently of “Knives at Dawn: the American Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition”

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2:06 – 2:19

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 2:39

No Yoo didn’t

Part of the territory of being an attorney is being unpopular, but John Yoo might possibly be the most well known, unpopular attorney of our generation. The former Bush justice official who was behind the infamous Bybee “torture” memo, turning P.O.W’s into “Enemy Combatants,” and giving the legal backing to unconstitutional wiretapping, to name just a few, has released the book “Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush.” Yoo traces the development of Presidential power through history, showing how each President shaped his powers to meet specific, extraordinary challenges that no constitutional founder could have imagined, demonstrating that, sometimes, the toughest decision to make might not be the most popular one.

 

Guests:

John Yoo, Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and author of, “Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush”; former attorney in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

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