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What actually can be done in terms of the scope of the operation on the ground? >> paula, you were back in haiti earlier this month. share with us what you witnessed during your time there? obviously the surgery is the curious. put it in perspective. >> i think as well as the security situation, everyone is aware of on the ground, unfortunately for so many in haiti, this comes on top of the humanitarian situation. whether they are looking for food or water or education or healthcare, anything, o...

Boston.com recently hosted a discussion with Dennis Lehane and Serena Longo of Harvard Book Store about his latest novel.

Lehane’s new novel, “Small Mercies,” sets a crime story against the backdrop of the city’s school busing battles of the 1970s.

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>> reporter: lj raider is a superfan. outside were in one of his two favorite places in new york. so on a given day, would you rather be watching the knicks at madison square garden or in the met, metropolitan museum of art? >> if you asked me that any of the last 20 years, id say in the met. but this season i think -- i think the knicks actually have a chance. >> reporter: raiders passion for sports and love of art is not a contradiction. it is his avocation. at art but make it sports, hes post...

Like youre going to save that much money, then. there is significant savings. i mean, this is — were delivering value for licence fee—payers. this is a value—for—all project. but also underpinning it is world—class journalism and our commitment to delivering for all audiences world—class, impartial journalism, which we know they value and they want from the bbc. now, weve already heard from some uk licence fee—payers who are unhappy that they feel theyre getting a worse service. es...

Who are unhappy that they feel theyre getting a worse service. essentially its a takeover of the uk channel by world news, isnt it, with some opt—outs? its not a takeover. ill go back to what i said earlier in the sense that during the day there are two feeds, a global feed and the uk feed. sometimes theyre combined. on any given weekday, theres 7.5 hours of uk—facing content built into the schedule for uk viewers before you even think about the combined feed. and it could be that a uk story...

When you heard it, what did you think? >> i think its pretty hard to believe that. first of all, let us assume, for arguments sake, that he, in fact, had a standing order, even though apparently, no one seems to be aware of it, or can find a copy of it in his former chief of staff, who would certainly be expected to know of, it wasnt aware of it. even if you make that assumption that there was such an order, and that the president had the power to do that, both of which are big assumptions, in t...

Really incredible hard to do. because we have boots on the ground youve got people who can tell you certain things. everything from the wind direction, on a given day, and with the weather patterns are. like from that perspective as well as what the pattern of life of an individuals. they could be following that individual and finding out what the routines are. if you dont have people on the ground. you can do those kind of things, but it is a lot harder to do them. because you need to rely on t...

Do you wish you had attended? >> you will know, the stakes could not be higher in georgia and having run for governor of my home state last time around when stacey was on the ballot, she needs to do what she needs to do to win. she has, you know, an uphill battle against an incumbent. she has an uphill battle against an incumbent who is chief vote suppresser in the country and cheating every way he can. so i will never fault my old friend stacey abrams from choosing what she needs to do on a giv...