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From the Customs House to the Cloisters

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

New York is a living laboratory for modern architecture, and Francis Morrone is your guide. Manhattan Mall? "A jolt of much-needed proletarian glitz." The Whitney Museum? "A city composed of buildings like these would lead to mass insanity."

Taped from the Senate Floor

Taped segment of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioning Gen. John Abizaid, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez & Dep. Commander for Detainee Ops. Gen. Geoffrey Miller

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Time Heals All Wounds

Chris Hedges former columnist for the New York Times and author, Due out next year: Decalogue (Basic Books 2005) War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Anchor June, 2003)What Every Person Should Know About War (Free Press, 2003) discusses his controversial commencement speech a year later

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Look Up

Francis Morrone architectural historian, columnist for the New York Sun and author, The Architectural Guidebook to New York City (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2002) on the architectural marvels of New York

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The New Brooklyn Museum

Is the gigantic new glass-and-brick entrance to the Brooklyn Museum a fitting frontispiece? If you attended the BL special "Culture Storm" at the Museum two weeks ago, you may have already formed an opinion.

If you haven't had time to go there yourself, why not adopt someone else's ...

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