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Judge Michael Mukasey, September 17, 2007 (Chris Greenberg/White House)Is Waterboarding Torture?
Will waterboarding sink the Mukasey nomination? By refusing to declare the technique illegal, Bush’s attorney general nominee has put himself in a tricky legal position. For counterterrorism consultant Malcolm Nance, the issue is much clearer: waterboarding is torture. How does Nance know? He’s done it. Also, Shaun Powell on how blacks lose out in sports.
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Is Waterboarding Torture?
Malcom Nance, counterterrorism consultant and blogger at Small Wars Journal, shares his first-hand experience with the controversial technique. And Karen Greenberg, the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU Law School, discusses the nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General.
Daily News: I Know Waterboarding is Torture - Because I Did It Myself
Center on Law and Security
Sports in Black and White
Newsday sports columnist Shaun Powell explores the world of African American athletes in his new book Souled Out? How Blacks are Winning and Losing in Sports (Human Kinetics, 2007)
Souled Out? is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Event
Shaun Powell will be reading from his book at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd between 124th and 125th Streets tomorrow at 4.
Following Up: Gingrich's Riches
Alan Judd, reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution looks into how Newt Gingrich makes a living.
Make Way for Imus
Civil rights attorney and, until yesterday, WABC Radio host Ronald Kuby is no longer on the air as the station makes way for its new morning host, Don Imus.
MTA Bears No Grudge
WNYC reporter Beth Fertig explains the controversy over the MTA's stand to support allowing, conditionally, the TWU to start deducting union dues automatically again -- without first promising never to strike. Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) Straphangers Campaign, agrees with the MTA stand. The Bloomberg administration objects.
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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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