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Cruelty In Cairo

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Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Suspended from ceilings, beaten with pipes, or sexually terrorized: Egyptian security forces routinely maltreat citizens. Dr. Aida Seif El Dawla, a psychiatrist and human rights advocate, says that police brutality has created a climate of silence and fear.

The Power of Three

Peter Harvey Attorney General of New Jersey explains why New Jersey is stepping in where the EPA stepped out and Richard Blumenthal State Attorney General of Connecticut on three northeastern States filing suits against power plants

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Eva Moskowitz Councilwoman (D-4th District-Upper East Side) on schools contracts hearings in the city council

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To Put it One Way

Maggie Balistreri author of The Evasion-English Dictionary on common verbal convolutions used to avoid confrontation and mask meanings.

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Jewel of the Nile

Dr. Aida Seif El-Dawla founding member and chairperson of the Egyptian Association Against Torture, co-founder of the New Woman Research Center, and Human Rights Watch honoree on her work defending victims of torture and other human rights issues in Egypt

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Reading is Fundamental

Susan McLean Executive Director of Literacy Partners on combatting adult illiteracy and George Buckner student at Literacy Partners on the problems of adult illiteracy and learning to read at age 65

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