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Brooklyn DA Charles HynesThe Dems Debate
Last night The Democratic presidential hopefuls debated for the second time this year. On the next Brian Lehrer Show, find out how they did and what it means for the 2008 election. Also, pose a question for a New York City DA: Brooklyn’s Charles Hynes.
JFK Plot
Rickford Burke, the president of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy and Jessica Stern, academic director of the Terrorism and the Law program at Harvard Law School and the author of Terror in the Name of God (HarperCollins, 2003), discuss the foiled JFK terror plot.
Dems Debate
Matt Bai, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine covering the presidential campaign and
Ruben Navarrette, Jr., syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Group, both assess how the Democratics did in their second debate this year.
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Ask the DA
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes takes questions from listeners and talks about big cases in Kings County.
Double Duty
WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly previews tomorrow’s New Jersey primany and updates the story about the arrests of 32 Bushwick teenagers on their way to a friend’s wake.
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Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution!
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