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Monday, March 06, 2006

As the Dubai ports world deal continues to rankle Washington, politicians are still picking sides. We talk Monday morning politics with with Knight Ridder’s Jonathan Landay and Newsweek’s Nisid Hajari. We’ll also look at the President's nuclear deal with India. Plus: highlights and lowlights of this year’s Oscar speeches; and look at whether more choices mean more freedom with Orlando Patterson and Barry Schwartz.

Monday Morning Politics

Jonathan Landay, national security correspondent for Knight Ridder
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Nisid Hajari,
- on politicians flip-flopping on the Dubai Ports World deal

» "Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003" by Jonathan Landay in Knight Ridder
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And the winner was....

Owen Gleiberman, film critic at Entertainment Weekly
- on who won, who lost, who gave a really bad speech at the Academy Awards

» Entertainment Weekly

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Free for All

Orlando Patterson, John Cowles professor of sociology at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming, Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World Vol. 2 (Basic Books)
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Barry Schwartz, professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author, The Paradox of Choice: : Why More Is Less (Harper Perennial, 2005) ...

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