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This monument at Yad Vashem is a kind of fence made of twisted bodies, screaming soundlessly to the heavensDefying Denial
Holocaust Remembrance Day is coming up in a year when Holocaust denial is in vogue in a government that just joined the nuclear club. Meet Mordecai Paldiel, a director of Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial. Also, Italian journalist Carlo Bonini who first discovered that some claims of an Iraqi nuclear program were based on forgeries; and Brooklynite Okwui Okpokwasili at P.S. 122’s Best of the Boroughs Festival.
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Everyone Has Their Dollar Amount
Andrew Edgecliffe -Johnson, media editor for the Financial Times, on the controversy over the sale of the stories of the captured British sailors.
The Italian Connection
Carlo Bonini, journalist for La Repubblica in Italy and author of Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror, describes Italy's role in the flawed intelligence that helped justify the war in Iraq.
Defying Denial
Mordecai Paldiel, director of the Department for the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, talks about Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15th and his book, The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Collins, 2007).
The Righteous Among the Nations is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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Rutgers Women's Basketball Coach C. Vivian Stringer speaks about Don Imus' comment at a press conference.
B.O.B.: Brooklyn
Okwui Okpokwasili, actress and creator of "Pent-up: a Revenge Dance," a modern multi-character folktale, represents Brooklyn in P.S.122's Best of the Boroughs (B.O.B.) Festival.
This week's other B.O.B. representatives on The Brian Lehrer Show:
Monday - Sara Valentine
Wednesday - Edith I. Freni
Thursday - Nia Love
Friday - Kwikstep
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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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]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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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