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What Are You Gonna Do About...Terrorism?

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Thursday, March 18, 2004

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are considered the defining event of George W. Bush’s presidency. Although most polls show that voters feel Bush is doing a good job of keeping them safe, Senator John Kerry says he has done 'too little.'
»More on our series "What Are You Gonna Do About...". Also, Chancellor Joel Klein, fighting corruption in New Jersey, and former Irish President Mary Robinson.

"If you two distinguished gentlemen qualify as lumpen proletariat, we first have to end welfare as we know it."
—David in New Brunswick on corruption in New Jersey

Promotion Commotion

Joel Klein New York City Schools Chancellor explains his program for ending "social promotion"

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Loosen Up!

http://www.dianeravitch.com/" target="_blank"> Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education at New York University and author The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003) says the Mayor now has too much control over city schools

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Lining Pockets in New Jersey

Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent and a contributing editor for New Jersey Monthly on the federal probe on corruption in New Jersey

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What Are You Gonna Do About…Terrorism?

James Rubin former Assistant Secretary of State and Chief Spokesman for the Department of State in the Clinton Administration and advisor to the Kerry campaign shares the Kerry plan to keep Americans safe

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Perles of Wisdom

Richard Perle served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and as chairman of the Defense Policy Board under President George Bush, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and co-author, An End to Evil: How to Win the War On Terror ( Random ...

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The Ethics of Globalization

Mary Robinson executive director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President of Ireland, and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says globalization must be for all, not just for profit

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