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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

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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.

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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.

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Following Up: Gingrich's Riches

Alan Judd, reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution looks into how Newt Gingrich makes a living.

Judd's Article

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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.

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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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