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Manhattan's Middle Kingdom
On most taxi maps, Chinatown looks about the same size as Little Italy. In fact, the neighborhood has thousands more residents and has been booming since the 70s. But 9/11 and its subsequent roadblocks have hurt Chinatown's businesses and gentrification may dramatically change the immigrant character of this Lower Manhattan community. Two activists look at the past, present and future of Chinatown. Also: a look at the books that most influenced award-winning writers.
The Code Of Hamurabi
Fawaz A. Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle East Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College, and author of America and Political Islam : Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Cambridge, 1999), on the political ramfications of attacking Iraq
A Good Ol' College Try
Brandt Gassman, managing editor at the Washington Square News at New York University, and Zac Peskowitz, associate editorial page editor for the Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , on how college activists are responding to the war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Turning a New Leaf
Diane Osen, editor of The Book That Changed My Life (Modern Library, 2002), discusses her interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists on books that have influenced them with drop-in calls from David Levering Lewis, professor of History at Rutgers University, 1994 National Book Award Finalist, and author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race (Henry Holt, 1993), Poet Linda Pastan, National Book Finalist in 1982 and author of PM/AM (WW Norton) and Barry Lopez, winner of the 1986 National Book Award and author of Arctic Dreams (Vintage Books, 2001)
Manhattan's Middle Kingdom
Margaret Chin, deputy executive director of Asian Americans for Equality and Jack Tchen, associate professor of History and Director of Asian/Pacific/American Studies at New York University and founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, on challenges and prospects for Chinatown
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