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Boys of Summer
An era ended when the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957. It took 44 years for the sport to return to the borough, but today the Brooklyn Cyclones, who play at Keyspan Park on Coney Island, have proved that Kings County still knows how to hit a homer. Also, the art and science of making political ads, the latest on unrest in Iraq, Colombia’s ongoing nightmare, and your calls on the smoker’s life.
The Pluses and Minuses of Ads
Bill Hillsman CEO and Chief Creative Officer of North Woods Advertising, a marketing communications and political and public affairs consulting company based in Minneapolis, former consultant to Senator Paul Wellstone, and author, Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time (The Free Press, 2004)analyzes the mud that has been slung so far this political season
Whirlwind Baseball
Ben Osborne Author, The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island NYU Press 2004 on his book and the Brooklyn Cyclones
Basket Case
Mario Murillo assistant professor at the School of Communication at Hofstra University and author, Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest, and Destabilization (Seven Stories Press, 2004)explains Colombia's continuing nightmare
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