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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

What to do with violent kids? Responding to a spate of ugly incidents at city schools, Mayor Bloomberg has proposed swifter action to remove disruptive students and send them to new “reform schools.” Also, Lenny Bruce’s posthumous pardon, new Jews, an irreverent guide to the presidential candidates, and your unusual holiday customs.

School of Hard Knocks

Dennis Walcott Deputy Mayor of New York for Policy on the Mayor's initiative to combat violence in schools

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Take My Conviction - Please!

David M. Skover 1st Amendment Scholar and Professor of Law, Seattle The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon. on the NY pardon of comedy icon Lenny Bruce.

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New Jews

Joshua Neuman Editor in Chief and Publisher, Heeb Magazine
and Benyamin Cohen Editor, Jewsweek
on new hip Jewish identity and what it means to be young and Jewish

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Where There's a Will There's a Way

Will Saletan Chief Political Correspondent for Slate Magazine and author,
Slate's Field Guide to the Candidates 2004 (Plume, 2003) profiles all 9 candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination

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Tradition!

Open Phones on unusual Holiday traditions

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