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(Fred Froehlich)Construction Boomdoggles
A Daily News investigation discovered a deadly lack of City oversight during the current building boom. We’ll explore the relationship between the “honor system” for developers in New York City and the deaths of dozens of construction workers. Also, what do we mean by the term “American hegemony”?; America’s origins at Jamestown; and more questions for Time magazine’s Baghdad bureau chief, Bobby Ghosh.
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Construction Boom-Doggles
Brian Kates, reporter for the New York Daily News, reports on the City's deadly lack of oversight of building construction, and Oona Adams, chief researcher of the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and education Trust who represents union workers and employers in construction, looks at the use of undocumented employees in the industry.
The Daily News series: Building Boom-Doggle
Part I: Danger & ripoffs are on the rise
Part II: So many ways to beat the system
Part III: At the mercy of contractors
Part IV: Dream denied
View of the News in Baghdad
Bobby Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, fills us in on the latest from Iraq as part of a month-long series.
"Empirical" Evidence
We continue our conversation about the U.S. and “empire” with Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order (2003) and Colossus: the Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004), his most recent book is The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Penguin Press HC, 2006).
Jamestown: 400 Years and Counting
Tim Hashaw, journalist and the author of The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown (Carroll & Graf, 2007)
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman, professor of history at New York University and the author of The Jamestown Project (Belknap Press, 2007),
discuss new views of the Jamestown colony as we observe the 400th anniversary of its founding.
The Jamestown Project and The Birth of Black America are available for purchase at Amazon.com.
“The First Black Americans” in U.S. News & World Report
Prof. Kupperman’s NYU webpage
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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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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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