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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Weekend service changes are a vexing experience for many subway riders, but some things are changing underground: starting tomorrow, reduced-fare holiday MetroCards can be used. And the MTA is now considering a plan to replace swipe-cards with a technology similar to EZ-Pass.

Caveat Emptor

Bob Graham, former Senator (D-FL) and former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
- says not all Senators and Congressmen had the same access to pre-war intel

» "What I Knew Before the Invasion" by Bob Graham in the Washington Post

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That's the Ticket

Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign
- helps listeners figure out which holiday farecard is right for them

» NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign

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The Promised Land

Hany Abu-Assad, director of the movie "Paradise Now"
- on his film about suicide bombers

» "Paradise Now" (Warner Bros.)

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Upstate, Downstate, Elephants Fighting

Fred Dicker, state editor for the New York Post
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Jim Rutenberg, metro reporter for the New York Times
and
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter
- handicap the next year's New York gubernatorial race and examine the struggle for control of Ground Zero

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Free Expression Choked in Zimbabwe

Beatrice Mtetwa, media lawyer in Zimbabwe and honoree of the Committee to Protect Journalists,
-says it's good to harbor doubts

» Beatrice Mtetwa (CPJ)

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Photo File: Beatrice Mtetwa


Advocate for journalists: Beatrice Mtetwa

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Feedback: Dublin Coddle Recipe Found

This just in from a listener in Ireland, responding to an earlier query for an obscure Irish dish:

My mother’s recipe would be close to this one. If any herbs were used it would have been parsley. Some call for a bunch of herbs. It might be a good ...

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Syriana: Reviews

The entire production staff of the BL Show attended a 'Syriana' screening last night (at the Times Square Ewalk, just few blocks from the star-studded New York Public Library premiere, as we found out this morning - Thanks, Campbell Robertson!)

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