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Dancers perform for Mrs. Laura Bush during her tour of Prayas in New Delhi, India. (White House/Shealah Craighead)Monday Morning Politics
As the Dubai ports world deal continues to rankle Washington, politicians are still picking sides. We talk Monday morning politics with with Knight Ridder’s Jonathan Landay and Newsweek’s Nisid Hajari. We’ll also look at the President's nuclear deal with India. Plus: highlights and lowlights of this year’s Oscar speeches; and look at whether more choices mean more freedom with Orlando Patterson and Barry Schwartz.
Monday Morning Politics
Jonathan Landay, national security correspondent for Knight Ridder
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Nisid Hajari,
- on politicians flip-flopping on the Dubai Ports World deal
» "Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003" by Jonathan Landay in Knight Ridder
» Bio of Nisid Hajari
And the winner was....
Owen Gleiberman, film critic at Entertainment Weekly
- on who won, who lost, who gave a really bad speech at the Academy Awards
» Entertainment Weekly
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Orlando Patterson, John Cowles professor of sociology at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming, Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World Vol. 2 (Basic Books)
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Barry Schwartz, professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author, The Paradox of Choice: : Why More Is Less (Harper Perennial, 2005)
- on what people mean by "freedom" and "choice"
» Orlando Patterson bio
» Barry Schwartz bio
» New York Times Magazine article by Barry Schwartz, et al
"Is Freedom Just Another Word for Many Things to Buy?"
» Boston Globe Op-Ed by Michael Kalin
"Why Jon Stewart isn't funny"
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