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Emily Post, MTA-Style
Some subway rules seem obvious: do not ride between subway cars. Other matters are more vague: can you jump the turnstile even if you have a prepaid Metrocard which did not swipe properly? The MTA just just proposed a new rulebook for subway conduct.
Troop Increase
Julian Barnes Senior Editor for US News and World Report on the increase of troops in Iraq prior to the January elections
» US News and World Report
Taking Stock
Tom Lauricella, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, on problems with employees managing 401 (k) plans
» Wall Street Journal
How Do You Like Our SEVIS?
Gail Szenes, director of the office of international students and scholars at New York University, says fewer foreign students are coming to NYU
» office of international students and scholars at New York University
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Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, and the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, says America needs to keep foreign students coming
» Professor Joseph Nye
» "You Can't Get There From Here", op-ed in the New York Times
SEVIS with a Smile
Russell Knocke, Director of the Office of Public Affairs in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says SEVIS may save us
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» Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
Emily Post rides the New York City Subway
Neysa Pranger Campaign Coordinator, Straphangers Campaign
on the new MTA rules of conduct
» Straphangers Campaign
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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 [40]
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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.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
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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