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A family photo broods, a grim reminder of displaced humanity, in a flood-damaged Gulf Coast home, Nov. 17, 2005 (springsrescuemission/flickr)Treading Water
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that was visited on the Gulf Coast. New Yorker writer Dan Baum chronicles what he calls the “Lost Year” and the failure to rebuild the poorer sections of New Orleans – despite the national attention and the seeming good intentions of the public and the politicians. Plus, mathematical uproar over a spurned prize; an update from the Atlantic Yards public hearing; and the Iran nuclear negotiations.
Reining in Uranium
Vali Nasr, professor of Middle East and South Asia politics at the Naval Post-graduate School, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author,
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton, 2006)
and
Patrick Clawson, deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy a bipartisan think tank dedicated to studying the Middle East
- discuss the latest maneuvers in the Iranian nuclear negotiations
» Vali Nasr's biography
» Patrick Clawson’s biography
Fields of Dreams
Keith Devlin, mathematician at Stanford University
- why the latest winner of the Field prize in mathematics is declining the award and
the significance of his mathematical feat
» Keith Devlin's website at Stanford
» Highest Honor in Mathematics Is Refused in the New York Times
Treading Water
Dan Baum, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine
and
Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective, a community volunteer organization offering assistance to hurricane victims along the Gulf Coast
- looks at the failure to rebuild in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward
» Consulat D’Influence in the New Yorker
» Common Ground Relief
» How to help
Crossing Atlantic
Gersh Kunztman, editor of The Brooklyn Papers
- talks about the public hearing over the Atlantic Yards project
» The Brooklyn Papers
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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")
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Squatting, Then and Now
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