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Up In the Air

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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Yesterday President Bush pushed aside talk of withdrawing US troops from Iraq any time soon. Seymour Hersh reports on a way to reduce ground forces by switching to air power. But some military experts worry about the effects of Iraqis calling in the strikes.

Bloomberg Gets Mad About Guns

Jackie Coles, excecutive director for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
and
Peter Reinharz , contributing editor for the City Journal and former New York City prosecutor
- respond to the Mayor's recent statements on gun laws

» New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
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The Man Outside

Peter Bearman, professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and author, Doorman (University of Chicago Press, paperback 2005)
- on the secret lives of New York doormen

» Doorman (Chicago Press)

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Up in the Air

Seymour Hersh,
- on US plans to swap ground forces with air power

» "Up in the Air" by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker

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Pressing the Press

Mark Mazzetti, defense correspondent for The Los Angeles Times
- reports on covert editorials planted by the US military in Iraqi newspapers

» "U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press" by Mark Mazzetti in the LA Times

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Immigration and HIV

Rosa Bramble Weed, co-founder of Voces Latinas, a Queens-based organization dedicated to reducing the HIV transmission rate among Latina immigrants
- shares her strategy for preventing new AIDS and HIV cases among immigrant women

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Chávez: My Oil is Coming to Your Town

You know Citgo, your friendly neighborhood gas station that just happens to be...a state subsidiary of Venezuela, and a geopolitical plaything of America's #2 Latin American bete noire, Hugo Chávez?

Chávez has already announced a deal with Bay Staters to provide the poor with low-cost fuel (read about it

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On t

Some ace cell phone photog caught the Gold Star mom riding the East Side local and sent it in to Gawker.


I wonder if Mike Bloomberg is on this train? I wanna have a word with him!

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Photo File: Peter Bearman


Just call me Professor Doorman, Ma'am

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