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Friday, October 21, 2005

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik has now penned his first novel for Children. The King in the Window is the story of Oliver Parker, a young American in Paris, who must contend with distracted parents and a parallel world full of evil. The themes relate to New York children processing 9/11 and how it functions as their defining shared experience.

30 Issues: Campaign Spending

Joseph Mercurio, president of National Political Services, a political consulting business,
-on the high cost of campaigns, and its cost to democracy

» National Political Services

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Little Manhattan

Adam Gopnik, Staff writer for the New Yorker and author, The King in the Window (Miramax Books, 2005)
- on the affect of 9/11 as a shared experience for New York children

» Adam Gopnik's articles in the New Yorker

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Live from Baghdad

Awaz Saleem Abdulla, radio host at Radio Nawa in Iraq
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Ayub Nuri, radio trainer
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Jessica Graham, radio reporter on their experiences reporting in Iraq

» Institute for War and Peace Reporting

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Dropping Out

Michael A. Rebell, executive director and counsel of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity,
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Henry Levin, William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teacher's College,
-explain the economic and social cost of the high high school dropout rate

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Photo File: Gopnik, Guests from Iraq, Rebell and Levin


Adam Gopnik: explaining evil to tots


Awaz Saleem Abdulla, Jessica Graham and Ayub Nuri: giving the low-down on the Iraqi beat

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Feedback: BL and Adam Gopnick in the Garden of Good and Evil

Subject: Related to the Question of Good and Evil
I believe we all come from the same "stuff" - and the vagaries of birth, family, country, gender, race, you name it, pulls or pushes us in various directions. To categorize human behavior as GOOD and EVIL separates us from ...

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