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Friday, August 12, 2005

New reports suggest that Able Danger, a covert military program, was following Mohammed Atta a year before the 9/11 attacks. But the information was never shared with other agencies because Atta had entered the country legally. Now some on Capitol Hill want a fuller explanation.

Intelligence Matters

Philip Shenon, Reporter for the New York Times
- on an obsure military unit called Able Danger, that identified some of the 9/11 hijackers a year before the attacks

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Historic Record

David McCraw general counsel for the New York Times
and
Glenn Corbett professor of Fire Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- on the release of tapes and transcripts about September 11th by the New York City Fire Department


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Getting dirty in the Garden State

Herb Jackson Trenton columnist, The Record of Bergen County, NJ
- on the Governor's race in New Jersey

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Flash That Winning Smile!

Robin Givhan, Washington Post writer
and
Sridhar Pappu, Atlantic Monthly correspondent
-on John Bolton, John Roberts, and the importance of good looks in Washington

» "Bolton's Hair: No Brush With Greatness" (The Washington Post) "An Image A ...

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In Deep Water

Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist and co-founder and vice president of the River Pool at Beacon
and
Alan Zollner, a director of the River Pool at Beacon,
-want to build a pool in the Hudson River at Beacon
» The River Pool ...

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We need a wikipedia entry!

A listener writes regarding Thursday's nerdcore segment:

Don't know if you've seen but I googled on nerdcore and it turns out
there's actually an entry about nerdcore in wikipedia, with some links
to other nerdcore rappers. Thought you might want to check it out or
even ...

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What's in a Smile?

Somewhere in the 90s, a woman's looks stopped being the main criterion by which to judge her as a politician. Around the same time, the physical appearance of male pols began to matter in a way it never had before. Today we have John Bolton, who “desperately needs a ...

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