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Rudolph Giuliani with George Bush (Conus Archive)
America's Mayor
Village Voice writer Wayne Barrett wrote a scathing biography of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani a few months before the 9/11 attacks. Giuliani became a hero after the attacks and has maintained that image ever since. But Barrett has just co-written a new book that questions his handling of the situation. In Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani, Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins argue that Giuliani's leadership may have exacerbated the crisis. Plus, the Fringe Festival turns 10.
Tuesday Morning Politics
Jim Rutenberg, White House correspondent for The New York Times
-on the President's press conference on Monday and the Lamont/Lieberman race in Connecticut
Fringe on Top
Elena K. Holy, producing artistic director, New York International Fringe
Festival
- talks about 10 years of the Fringe Festival
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Juliette Avila, founder of Find Your Light, a playwriting/acting outreach
program for teens living through New York City's shelter
system and the director of "Understand to be Understood" in
the Fringe Festival
and
Mariam Ajose, co-creator and actress in "Understand to be Understood"
and
Brian Parks, former Village
Voice theater editor and playwright of "Americana Absurdum" which premiered at the first New York International Fringe Festival and is back for the 10th anniversary,
» Fringe NYC website
» more about Find Your Light and Understand to be Understood
» more about Americana Absurdum
America's Mayor
Dan Collins, senior producer at CBSNews.com and and co-author,
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 (HarperCollins 2006)
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Wayne Barrett, senior editor at the Village Voice, 2006 Jack Newfield Visiting Professor at the Hunter College graduate journalism program and author, Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 (HarperCollins 2006)and
Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic Books, 2000)
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on Rudy Giuliani' handling of September 11th and whether or not he should run for President in 2008
The Future of Plastics
Barbara Kancelbaum, works in public relations as a freelancer and is a Park Slope mom
- on her work to stop her neighbors from buying bottled water
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Laura Haight, senior environmental associate at NYPIRG, New York Public Interest Research Group
- on the Bigger, Better Bottle Bill passed by the New York State Assembly and why it is stalled in the New York State Senate
» NYPIRG's Environmental Efforts
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