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Monday, November 13, 2006

Almost a week after the election sweep, the new Democratic majority in Congress and the newly isolated Bush administration are figuring out what they want. Also: the sculptor of the new memorial for the victims of the Flight 587 crash in Queens; a cultural history of Birth and the novelist and columnist Carl Hiaasen.

Monday Morning Politics: Democratic Edition

Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author, The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (Harper Collins, 2006)
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Atrios(A/K/A Duncan Black), writes the blog eschaton
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In Memoria

Freddy Rodriguez, Dominican sculptor who designed the Flight 587 memorial
- on the unveiling of the memorial to Flight 587 that he designed and the life and work of a Dominican artist in New York

Freddy Rodriguez is included in a group show of contemporary Dominican ...

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Labor History

Tina Cassidy, journalist and author, Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
- how her experience giving birth led her to write a cultural history of childbirth

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State of the Sunshine State

Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald columnist and author, Nature Girl (Knopf, 2006)
- on Florida politics, tourism, real estate in his columns and his 11 novels

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Carl Hiaasen




Carl Hiaasen

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Carl Hiassen, Miami Herald columnist and author, "Nature Girl"

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Freddy Rodriguez




Freddy Rodriguez

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Freddy Rodriguez, Dominican sculptor who designed the Flight 587 memorial

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Tina Cassidy




Tina Cassidy

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Tina Cassidy, journalist and author, "Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born

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