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Lost Beneath The Waves
When the General Slocum sunk in the East River in 1904, 1,021 Lower East Siders of German descent drowned. Until September 11, 2001, it was the worst disaster in New York history, but one that is little-remembered. Also on the show: City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, women left in the rebuilding of Iraq, and the EU's new draft constitution.
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Joel Siegel, political correspondent for the Daily News, gives a roundup of city news
EU Are the One
Sabina Rosenblat, editor of Internationale Politik, a journal of The German Council on Foreign Relations and Lionel Barber, US managing editor of the Financial Times, on the EU constitution
The Mother of All Battles
Zainab Salbi, founder and president of Women for Women International, on women's rights in post-war Iraq
Lost Beneath the Waves
Edward T. O'Donnell, professor of American history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and author of Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy Of The Steamboat General Slocum (Broadway Books, 2003), on the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the General Slocum. Click here to read an excerpt of the book, www.general-slocum.com
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