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(Shahsagar)Light The Way
Today is Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, one of the most popular celebrations in South Asia. If the City Council has it's way, it will get formal recognition in New York by way of suspension of alternate side street parking. The Mayor vetoed the council's bill, but they are set to override it this month.
The Fitzmas Holidays
James Joyner, writes the blog outsidethebeltway.com
- on the Lewis Libby indictments from Special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald
» Outside the Beltway
Alitoist
Mark Schmitt, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and writes the weblog, The Decembrist
- on the nomination of Judge Alito
» The Decembrist
30 Issues: Home Rule
Jon Shure, president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts research on state issues,
-says New Jersey towns and districts need to think about consolidating
» New Jersey Policy Perspective
On the Record
Mike Kelly, columnist at The Record of Bergen County, NJ
- on the paper's endorsement of Forrester
» The Record of Bergen County
Lighten Up
Pandit Prakash Gosai, priest at the Bhubaneswar Mandir (temple) in Queens
- on the significance of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light
Memories of Robben Island
Ahmad Kathrada, former cabinet member in the South African government, author, Memoirs (Struik , 2005)
- on his life in post-apartheid South Africa with Nelson Mandela
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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.
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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