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Jim Dwyer adds his two cents to Wayne Barrett's Village Voice piece on the meaning of the Yankees World Series rings former mayor Rudy Giuliani scored.

And Juan Gonzalez weighs in on the controversy concerning the new 14-hour Ken Burns documentary on World War II set to air on PBS this fall. Gonzalez looks at Burns' prior work on his epic 'Jazz' and 'Baseball' documentaries and quotes a New School music professor who calls Burns "a serial eraser of Latinos."