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World Cup and Cable TV

by Jill Magi

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Hold onto your protective gear because this column races quickly through notes on the NBA finals, the NHL Stanley Cup, the Red Bull Arena debut, and a bit of World Cup coverage.

The View from New Orleans

by Vincent Rossmeier

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By now, you’ve seen the photos, read the news stories, and heard the measured—and not so measured—opinions of experts focusing on the April 20 BP explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig, where oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico.

Letter from the Gulf: The View from Plaquemines Parish

by Vanessa Tolino

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While driving down from New Orleans to Venice, “ground zero” of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I heard Parish President Billy Nungesser on a local radio show.

WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman

by Robert S. Eshelman

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In Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats (Oneworld, 2010), international affairs journalist Gwynne Dyer offers bleak predictions

A New Lesson Plan

by Richard Greenwald

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Mention the name Diane Ravitch to anyone involved in American education and you are sure to get a visceral response.

Vollmann Goes East

by Adam P. Frederick

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A short introduction serves as an apology for the “string-ball of idle thoughts” that is William T. Vollmann’s newest, Kissing the Mask, a book which perhaps warrants an apology.