Stiff Upper Lip
- on the G 8 Summit, the terrorist bombings in London and the news that Italy will withdraw her troops from Iraq.
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Center Court
- slices through the speculation about the high court
» Emily Bazelon
» Slate
No More A Rove-ing?
- on reports that Karl Rove was Time reporter Matthew Cooper's source in the Valerie Plame case
» Newsweek Magazine
Democracy Wonk
What's a Fatwa?
-says Friedman is wrong, many fatwas have been issued against terrorists
» Bernard Haykel
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Uniformfreak is a cybercollector who will almost definitely never make an appearance on our show. Nevertheless, his collection of airline stewardess uniforms is well worth visiting.
Especially noteworthy: Allegheny Airlines.
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On Tomorrow's Show
WNYC's Beth Fertig and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky try to explain why the MTA has spent only about $30m of $600m allocated for improvements to public transportation security.
M.T.A. Slow to Spend Money on Transit Security (The New York Times)
Friedman Rebutted!
On today's show NYU's Bernard Haykel refuted Tom Friedman's assertion that "to this day - no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden."
In fact, says Haykel, plenty of Muslims, including Muslim clerics, have condemned terror against civilians committed ...