RIPPED-OFF: Journalist Pratap Chatterjee has seen the face of the beast, and it is Halliburton. Conniving and connected, the Texas oil company has secured itself a prize position in Washington even as its corruption and incompetence cost tax-payers and soldiers dearly. Chatterjee explains all this in a helpful book called , which he's talking about tonight up at Town Hall.

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