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Allah, My Children!
A short walk from the hubbub of downtown Flushing, the pink granite mosque of the Muslim Center of New York is a beacon for Muslims throughout the borough. With over 3,000 members who speak more than 96 languages, it's a microcosm of the entire Islamic world. Also on the show: Blair skips the Tony awards, the world's zaniest contracts, and what Iraqis really think of the new Iraqi governing council.
In The Dragon's Blair
Richard Wolffe, senior diplomatic correspondent with Newsweek and author of The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust (Harper Collins, 2002), on Tony Blair's visit to the U.S.
Just Sign on the Dotted Line…
Co-authors Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and Supreme Court correspondent for Slate.com and Brandt Goldstein, a Washington writer and lawyer, on their book Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman, 2003)
Cabinet-Makers
Patrick Tyler, New York Times chief correspondent, currently in Baghdad, on Iraq's interim council and the selection of a new cabinet
The Center of It All
M. T. Sherwani, director of the Muslim Center of New York in Flushing, introduces Queens' largest Muslim congregation and R. Scott Hanson, he's completing a book, City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens--New York City, 1945-2000, which is under review at Oxford University Press.
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