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Darfurian women wait for food supplies in Abu Shouk which lies just outside the capital of North Darfur (SALAH OMAR/AFP/Getty Images)Darfur Deadline
As the deadline runs out for a peace treaty in Darfur, world leaders are scrambling for a way to end the genocide. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Harvard professor Samantha Power look at what can be done in the region. Plus: paleontologist Niles Eldridge, the president of Medgar Evers College and listeners call in about political humor.
Ever Again
Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times
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Samantha Power, lecturer in Public Policy, founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and author,
Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins, 2003)
- on the standstill in the Darfur peace negotitations
» Samantha Power's bio at Kennedy School of Government
Open Phones: Colbert's Comedy
listeners weigh in on Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner
» Watch the video
Children of the Evolution
Niles Eldridge, paleontologist, curator of the Darwin Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
- draws political implications from the exhibition on evolution
» Niles Eldridge bio at the American Museum of Natural History
» more on the Darwin Exhibition
The Men's Room
Edison O. Jackson, president of Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- a conversation about efforts to enroll and retain more black men in college
» Medgar Evers College
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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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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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