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(Peter Kanneberger)
One of Rudolph Giuliani’s innovations as mayor was reviving the cabaret law enacted in 1926, which restricts dancing and other nightlife. Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra has been charged with revising the controversial policy. Also, political roundup with Andrea Bernstein and Richard Wolffe, the history of the mafia in America, and how Pakistan leaked its nuclear secrets to rogue regimes.
"This is the guy that we all had written off and he came back, which is a story that we love in the journalism business. We love both--we love the person who flew too close to the sun, as in Dean, and the one who came from way behind to turn it all around."
--Andrea Bernstein on John Kerry
"I’m not the first person to say this, but these kinds of polls are like crack/cocaine for the weak, in terms of political junkies. You can do almost anything you want with them."
--Richard Wolffe on opinion polls
"This is the guy that we all had written off and he came back, which is a story that we love in the journalism business. We love both--we love the person who flew too close to the sun, as in Dean, and the one who came from way behind to turn it all around."
--Andrea Bernstein on John Kerry
"I’m not the first person to say this, but these kinds of polls are like crack/cocaine for the weak, in terms of political junkies. You can do almost anything you want with them."
--Richard Wolffe on opinion polls
Primary Sources
Richard Wolffe, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent with Newsweek and author of The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust, (Harper Collins, 2002)
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Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
discussing Kerry's lead in the primaries and the results from Virginia and Tennessee
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Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
discussing Kerry's lead in the primaries and the results from Virginia and Tennessee
I Love The Nightlife
Gretchen Dykstra, New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs
explaining the city's efforts to revise the cabaret laws and responding to criticism that the proposals go too far
explaining the city's efforts to revise the cabaret laws and responding to criticism that the proposals go too far
It's in the Khan
Gary Milhollin, Director of the Wisconsin Project, a non-profit non-partisan research organization specializing in nuclear non-proliferation
giving an in-depth look at the black market in nuclear material and the actions of the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan
giving an in-depth look at the black market in nuclear material and the actions of the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan
Keep it in the Family
Thomas Reppetto, President, New York City's Citizen Crime Commission, author of America Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power, (Henry Holt, 2004), detailing the history of America's notorious crime families
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