Required Reading: August 14, 2006

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Cease-Fire Begins After Fierce Battles (LA Times)

Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story (Christian Science Monitor)
Part 1: The kidnapping

Watching Lebanon (Seymour Hersch in the New Yorker)

Opinion: Black America Must Confront AIDS by Julian Bonds (Washington Post)

Bloomberg, Governor Bush Write Op-Ed (NY Sun)

Health Officials Aim At Tanning Salons (New York Times)

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Crown Heights residents fume over new barricades ahead of West Indian Day parade

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Gloria Steinem in Conversation with David Remnick, from 2015

The writer and activist, who died this week, discussed her memoir, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a question for activists: Which comes first, changing hearts or changing laws?
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It’s been 25 years since 9/11. Today we talk about the 60 words that ushered in everything that came after.
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