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Albany on Trial

From the Albany Bureau at the New York Times, reporter Nicholas Confessore discusses what the Joe Bruno trial says about how business is conducted in Albany.

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New York City's Comptroller: John Liu

The first Asian-American elected to city-wide office, John Liu, New York City comptroller-elect, explains what he plans to accomplish in the next four years.

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Timely Musical

Three members of the improvisational musical comedy group The Made-Up Musical Tara Copeland, Michael Martin, and Frank Spitznagel, demonstrate the art of "improv musicals."

Call for Ideas! Suggest a song title, pulled from the headlines, for the instant musical.

Check the Schedule for the First Annual New York Improv Festival (November 6th - 7th, 2009)

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Communities Affected by Fort Hood

Details continue to emerge about the shooting at Fort Hood. Two communities have been affected in particular: military families and Muslim-Americans. We try to find common ground. Tom Tarantino, legislative associate at the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and an Army Captain who returned from Iraq in 2006, discusses how a violent incident at a military base might affect life there for military families. And Hesham El-Meligy, a Muslim-American activist from Staten Island, discusses the incident and the reaction of his community.

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All-American Runner

Mebrahtom Keflezighi was the first American in 27 years to win the New York City Marathon. Cameron Stracher, the publisher of the New York Law School Law Review and author of a forthcoming book about the American running boom in the 1970's and 1980's, discusses why he thinks American running was on the decline and what Keflezighi's win means for the future of the sport in the United States - and what an All-American runner means anyway.

Read Cameron Stracher's Op-Ed in the New York Times 10/30/09

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Yankees Win, the Japanese Way?

The ticker tape parade for the Bronx Bombers is today, and the star of the show is World Series MVP Hideki Matsui, who exemplifies a particular brand of baseball that's different from the rest of his team. WNYC’s own baseball fanatic (and softball team co-captain) Rex Doane with Andrew Jenks, director and producer of the documentary "The Zen of Bobby V,” talk about the differences between the American and Japanese baseball.

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