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(katmere/flickr)Democrats on Darfur
During Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate several of the candidates had suggestions for what to do next in Darfur -- Joe Biden suggested NATO troops, Bill Richardson wants a boycott of the China Olympics, others rejected both ideas -- we'll debate it out. Also, the New Yorker's Rebecca Mead on the selling of the American wedding.
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When Should We Intervene and How?
Stephen Morrison, director of the Africa program at Center for Strategic and International Studies, William Dobson, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and Bec Hamilton, representative of the Genocide Intervention Network, discuss various plans of intervention in Darfur.
The American Way of Wedding
In New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead’s new book, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (Penguin, 2007), she asks what American weddings say about the American identity.
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Rebecca Mead will be reading from One Perfect Day at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble tonight at 7:30. She’ll be at the Barnes & Noble in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Thursday at 7:00.
One Perfect Day is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Car-Free Central Park?
New Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said she is considering experimenting with a car-free Central Park this summer. Graham Beck, Car Free Central Park Campaign Coordinator for Transportation Alternatives, and Fernando Mateo, spokesperson for the New York State Federation of Taxi Cab Drivers, look at the implications.
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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 [40]
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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