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Archbishop and Actor
In 1984 Archbishop Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid work in South Africa. This year he has taken to acting, and for two nights only this month he will star in the new play “Guantánamo”, portraying Lord Steyn, a British Magistrate who speaks out for three detainees in Camp Delta. Also the New York Times’ Sam Roberts, New Jersey on the fence, and 30 issues: are we safer after the Iraq war?
30 Issues: Has the Iraq War Made Us Safer?
Max Boot, Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and former editorial features editor, The Wall Street Journal, says the Iraq war has made us safer
» Max Boot
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George A. Lopez, professor of political science and Senior Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, says the Iraq war has not made us safer
» George Lopez
Who Am I?
Sam Roberts, reporter, columnist and editor for The New York Times, and author, Who We Are NowL The Changing Face of American in the Twenty-first Century (Times Books 2004), on who Americans are culturally and politically
» New York Times
From the Altar to the Stage
Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, former head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on his role in Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom
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Allan Buchman, executive producer of Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, and founder of The Culture Project
» Guantanamo: Honor Bound
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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