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District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
After more than thirty years on the job, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is running for a ninth term. This year is different, though: he faces spirited opposition in the democratic primary from a telegenic judge who says he has spent too much time on white collar prosecutions.
Courting the Court
Cass Sunstein, professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, has an article in the latest edition Legal Affairs magazine, and author, Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America (Basic Books, 2005)
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Viet Dinh,professor of law at Georgetown University, and assistant attorney ...
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Viet Dinh,professor of law at Georgetown University, and assistant attorney ...
Don't Panic!
Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter,
-explains why a track fire at West 4th Street suggests serious problems in New York's emergency response system
» Read and listen to Bethg Fertig's report
-explains why a track fire at West 4th Street suggests serious problems in New York's emergency response system
» Read and listen to Bethg Fertig's report
Law and Order
Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan District Attorney
- on his relection campaign
» Robert Morgenthau's bio (New York Attorney General's office)
- on his relection campaign
» Robert Morgenthau's bio (New York Attorney General's office)
Open Phones
listeners comment on Daniel Schorr's 8/31 commentary of Hurricane Katrina and "intelligent design"
An Ounce of Prevention
Greg Shaw, senior research scientist at George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management
- on New Orleans' preparedness for, and response to Hurricane Katrina
» The George Washington Univeristy Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management
- on New Orleans' preparedness for, and response to Hurricane Katrina
» The George Washington Univeristy Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management
Earth-Shattering News! Comics in The Times!
They gray lady is about to get...well, probably just a little bit funnier.
"'N.Y. Times Magazine' Debuting Comics in September" (Editor & Publisher)
Photo File: Robert Morgenthau
If you make one more reference to my age, I'll 86 you!
New In The Lexicon: De-Water
You might say after Hurricane Katrina that we need a new vocabulary to describe the kind of destruction that happened there. What we got, though, was a new word for the verbs dry out, dehydrate, or just plain dry: de-water.
Some examples:
Michael Rogers, Army Corps of Engineers, on CNN, ...
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