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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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Season's Eatings
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Climbing K2: Life and Death
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Ed Viesturs, the first American to climb all fourteen eight-thousand meter mountains, and one of only six to do so without oxygen, discusses his new book K2: Life & Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Broadway, 2009).
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