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E.O. WilsonSustainable Development
On Capitol Hill, newly elected members of Congress get oriented, potential 2008 presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and John McCain speak out as members of the Armed Services Committee, and Trent Lott is given a new Republican leadership position. Plus, was there voter intimidation in Westchester County? Sustainable development with E.O. Wilson and Jeffrey Sachs; and real estate deal-breakers.
Thursday Morning Politics
Eliot Engel, Congressman (D-17th District NY-Bronx and Westchester), member of the House Committee on International Relations
- on the new Democrat controlled Congress and the race for the majority leader in the House
then
George Cahlink, reporter at The Congressional Quarterly
and
John Stanton, staff writer for Roll Call
- compare and contrast Senators Clinton and McCain as the Armed Services Committee weighs in on Iraq (and 2008 looms)
Bad Politics
Dame Diggz , rapper
and
Henry Berger, election lawyer for Andrea Stewart-Cousins
- think that votes were thwarted in Yonkers through dirty politics on Nicholas Spano's part
and
Michael Gannon reporter for the Journal News
- talks about the complaints being lodged on the Spano campaign
Will Science Save Creation?
Edward O. Wilson, scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author,
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (W. W. Norton, 2006)
and
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
- preview their seminar: "Sustainable Development—Can it Save the Creation?"
Event: E. O. Wilson and Jeffery Sachs will be speaking at Columbia University’s Miller Theater Thursday evening.
Deal Breakers: The Apartment
Jake Dobkin, publisher of Gothamist.com, a New York City blog
and
Bob Borzotta, runs the website neighborsfromhell.com
- what it takes for people to reach a breaking point in their living situation
Gothamist posting on the breaking point of apartment tolerance
New York Times article on living situation extremes
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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 [41]
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What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
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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