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Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqis inspect damage at the site where a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad, 28 February 2006. (SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)Exit Interview
Farnaz Fassihi has covered the Iraq war from Bagdhad for the Wall Street Journal for the past three years and is now stationed in Beirut. She’ll offer her take on the recent outbreak of sectarian violence in Iraq and on covering the Middle East as an Iranian-American. Plus: the creators of the website » Overheard in New York have compiled some of the best of New Yorkers’ eavesdroppings in a new book and is that new ipod you just bought designed to only last two years? And a call in on Bush's popularity in India.
Back from Bahdad
Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal correspondent in Beirut
- on her recent reports from Iraq
Be Careful What You Say
Michael Malice, co-creator of overheardinnewyork.com and co-author, Overheard in New York: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways (Roadside Amusements,
2006)
- on the things New Yorkers say, out loud
» Overheard in New York
Worm in the Apple
Steven Levy, Newsweek senior editor and author of the forthcoming The Perfect Thing : How the iPod Is Shuffling Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Simon and Schuster)
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Rob Enderle, president and founder of the Enderle Group, a technology consulting firm
- on ipods and obsolescence
» Steven Levy
» the Enderle Group
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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]
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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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