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Some gallery exhibitions are free, others charge money, but a new exhibit at the Caribbean Cultural Center asks that visitors bring a pair of sneakers. “Where’d You Get Those?” is a complete style guide to what was fashionable in New York footwear between 1960 and 1987. Also, Assemblyman Brodsky on West Side development, two takes on Bill Clinton’s book, and patients’ rights to sue get curtailed by the Supreme Court.
Conferencing
Richard Brodsky Assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County)discusses the panel he has formed to assess the expansion of the Jacob Javits Center among other issues important to New York State and City
The Importance of the Right Sneakers
Eli Jacobs director of "Inventos: Hip Hop in Cuba" explains the worldwide appeal of hip hop culture
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Tom Feiling director, "Resistencia: Hip Hop in Colombia" explains the worldwide appeal of hip hop culture
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Bobbito Garcia AKA, DJ Cucumberlice, DJ, sneaker consultant, and author, Where'd You Get Those?: New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 (Testify Books, 2003) explains the worldwide appeal of hip hop culture
My Life, So-Called
Sarah Crichton publisher of Sarah Crichton Books, a new imprint at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and co-author, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl (Scribner Book Company), on President Clinton's new memoir, My Life
In My Life
Joe Klein senior writer at Time Magazine and author, The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency (Doubleday Books, 2002)offers a political analysis of the Clinton memoir, My Life
High Court Stakes
Sally Greenberg Senior Counsel, Consumer Union
discusses the Supreme Courts decision to limit patients rights to sue HMOs
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Dr. Quentin Young National Coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program discusses the Supreme Courts decision to limit patients rights to sue HMOs
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