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Hyder Akbar travelled to Afghanistan when his father moved back to work for President Hamid Karzai.This Afghan Life
Hyder Akbar had been a regular teenager until this summer when he traveled to his father’s native Afghanistan and became embedded with US troops. He’s been keeping an audio diary of his experiences for “This American Life.”
Gehry Extraordinary
Bruce Ratner , president and chief executive officer of Forest City Ratner Companies
Speaks on his desire to acquire the New Jersey Nets, and build a stadium in Brooklyn.
Brawl in Brooklyn
Letitia James,City Council Member, Brooklyn 35
on the proposed stadium on Atlantic and Flatbush
Jumping through Hoops
Matthew Futterman ,Reporter, Sports Business, Star Ledger
on the possible move of the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn from a New Jersey perspective
The BL and End All
Allan Pepper, co-owner and co-founder of the Bottom Line Speaks on the possible demise of the Bottom Line nightclub
Wheelin & Dealin
Ted Alden ,Washington Correspondent for the Financial Times
on Halliburton contracts in Iraq and the Wolfowitz memoranda on barring non allied countries from rebuilding Iraq.
Kabul Stones
Hyder Akbar, Teenage Afghan-American, subject of "Come Back to Afghanistan" broadcast on This American Life
on his experience in Afghanistan and being an unofficial embed with US forces in the country
and
Carlotta Gall, Afghanistan Correspondent for the New York Times
details the current situation in Afghanistan
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