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Brooklyn DA, Charles J. HynesHoward Beach Revisited
Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes came to prominence as the special prosecutor in the 1986 racially motivated attack of three black men by a gang of white youths. He’ll discuss the latest hate crime in Howard Beach and how the first one changed the city. Plus, the best and worst of summer movies.
Howard Beach Revisited
Charles Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney, special prosecutor of the 1986 Howard Beach racial attack
- offers his insight into the recent bias crime in Howard Beach, Queens
» Brooklyn District Attorney's Office
Childs Play
Paul Goldberger, dean of Parson's School of Design and architecture critic for the New Yorker
- on David Child's redesign of the Freedom Tower (and how it differs from Daniel Libeskind's master plan)
» New Freedom Tower Design
Hunger Not!
John Coonrod, Vice President of the Hunger Project,
-says there are proven methods of fighting hunger
» Jennifer The Hunger Project
Special NPR Coverage
of President Bush speaking in the Rose Garden about the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
War of the Blockbusters
Owen Gleiberman, Film Critic at Entertainment Weekly,
-gives the lowdown on summer movies
» Entertainment Weekly
and then is joined by
Sharon Waxman, Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and author, Rebels on the Backlot: Maverick Directors And How They Conquered The
Hollywood Studio System (HarperCollins, 2005),
-on when stars' personal lives are more interesting than their movies
» "You've Read the Gossip; Still Want to See the Movie?" (The New York Times)
» "Rebels on the Backlot"
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