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Understanding Darfur
Journalist Samantha Power is a passionate advocate of international intervention to halt humanitarian crises. She recently flew to the Darfur region of Sudan on assignment for the New Yorker magazine to interview the leader of the Janjaweed militia, Musa Hilal. Also, the ghosts of the Vietnam war in the 2004 campaign, a bill to end car alarm headaches, and your calls on Jon Kerry’s Iraq war votes.
Apolcalypse Then
Michael Sallah National Affairs writer for Toledo Blade, winner of 2004
Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting (with Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr)
offers context on atrocities committed during the war in Viet Nam
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Joe Mahr staff reporter at the Toledo Blade
» Toldeo Blade
Alarmed
John LiuCity Council--Democrat, District 20 ; Chair of the
Transportation Committee
discusses the bill he proposed to ban car alarms which Bloomberg vetoed
» John Liu
Musa Halal: Not Kosher
Samatha Power contributor to the New Yorker, wrote "Dying in
Darfur" for 8-30-04 issue
shares thoughts from her conversation with Janjaweed's leader in Darfur
» New Yorker
Kerry Flies the Coop
Andrea Bernstein senior reporter, WNYC, reports live from Cooper Union where John Kerry was about to speak.
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