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Getting In
A look at the college admissions sweepstakes from both sides: we hear admissions counselors from two local high schools, public and private, and admissions officers from City College and M.I.T., to see if kids are getting the advice they need. Also, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reacts to President Bush's new Iraq strategy; and writer and activist Kevin Powell on manhood, nationalism and Martin Luther King.
The Democrats React
Frank Lautenberg, Senator, D-NJ
- on the Democrats' reaction to the planned troop surge.
The MLK Dreaming
Kevin Powell, Brooklyn-based community activist and author,
Someday We’ll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press, 2006)
- on the relevancy of Martin Luther King today and the event
LOOKING FOR MARTIN:
Are Dr. King and His 'Dream' Still Relevant?
For more on the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
Getting In
Stephen Singer, director of college counseling at the Horace Mann School, a private college preparatory school in Riverdale, NY
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Jon Roure, director of the CollegeBound, a school-based college counseling service at the Young Women's Leadership Foundation
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Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at MIT
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Joseph Fantozzi, director of admissions at City College
then
Sarah Seltzer, Harvard College graduate who attended Horace Mann preparatory school
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Karina Beras, Cornell University sophomore who attended Health Opportunities High School in the South Bronx
and
Joelle Menan, Hunter College sophomore and graduate of Health Opportunities High School, a small public New York City high school
-weigh in on the college admissions process
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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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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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