http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708a.mp3 A look ahead to this week in the economic crisis http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/look-ahead-week-economic-crisis/ true 7793 segment The latest economic news is a forecast for another rough week for Americans. American companies in the goods and services sector continue to cut jobs while analysts are looking to new home sales remaining flat and a continued devaluing of the housing market. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708b.mp3 Is VP nominee Sarah Palin going "rogue?" http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/vp-nominee-sarah-palin-going-rogue/ true 10074 segment In the final, intense sprint to the finish of the election, is there a Sarah Palin insurgency? Politico blogger Ben Smith sees increasing signs of tension in the McCain-Palin camp as lousy poll numbers and damaging revelations — like Palin's $150,000 makeover — are leading to finger-poin http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708c.mp3 Future U.S. troop involvement unclear as Iraqi fighters wait for paychecks http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/future-us-troop-involvement-unclear-as/ true 6921 segment By this week, the U.S. military in Iraq should have largely transferred responsibility for paying members of "the Sons of Iraq," Sunni Arab groups fighting al-Qaida to the Iraqi government. And, senior Iraqi politicians are warning that, after eight months of talks, a major deal between Baghdad and http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708d.mp3 2008 World Series: Worst World Series ever http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/2008-world-series-worst-world-series-ever/ true 5365 segment The Philadelphia Phillies are now up three games to one over the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 World Series, but writer Jeff Beresford-Howe was hoping to see something he hasn't during the series: baseball. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708e.mp3 The international journalists' perspectives on the U.S. election http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/international-journalists-perspectives/ true 7428 segment » Read posts from bloggers around the world on the U.S. elections at The Takeaway's The International Electoral College. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708f.mp3 An endangered species: The undecided voter http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/endangered-species-undecided-voter/ true 6634 segment With records being set every day by scores of early voters rushing to cast their vote, it's hard to believe there's such a thing as an undecided voter. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708g.mp3 Eight days to Election Day: What to look for as campaign season wraps up http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/eight-days-election-day-what-look-campaign-season-wraps/ true 6613 segment Eight days before the election, New York Times editor Marcus Mabry talks with The Takeaway about how far we've come since the primaries, and what to expect in the last week of campaigning. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708h.mp3 On the Ballot: Abortion http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/ballot-abortion/ true 5810 segment The Takeaway is looking at the choices going before voters on Election Day. Today, The Takeaway speaks with a reporter from South Dakota where a comprehensive abortion ban is on the ballot for the second time in two years, and a reporter in Colorado where some voters are trying to define human life http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708i.mp3 Just words: How language triumphed on the campaign trail http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/just-words-how-language-triumphed-campaign-trail/ true 7612 segment During the primaries, Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton criticized another Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, for offering "just words." But now it seems the simplicity of his words, and the calm with which he delivers them, could explain why he's ahead in t http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708j.mp3 Damascus protests U.S. helicopter raid across Iraqi-Syrian border http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/damascus-protests-us/ true 6382 segment Syrian officials are protesting an American helicopter raid inside the Syrian border that they say killed at least eight civilians. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway102708k.mp3 The man behind the kosher meatpacking company, site of a May immigration raid http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/oct/27/man-behind-kosher-meatpacking-company-site-may-immigration-raid/ true 7857 segment Hasidic Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin expanded his family's Brooklyn butcher shop into the largest kosher meat plant in the nation. The underside of his success was revealed this spring after an immigration raid at his Iowa plant, including violations of child labor laws.