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FIRE Speaks About Brandeis on WBZ Radio Tonight
Robert Shibley, FIRE's Vice President, will be a guest on the Dan Rea show on Boston's WBZ News Radio 1030-AM tonight at 8:15 pm (ET) to talk about the case of Prof. Donald Hindley at Brandeis University as well as similar situations across the nation. Rea and Shibley are also planning to take phone calls, so if you are an interested listener and have a question, please call in! You can also listen live on the Internet at WBZ.com.
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