The Brian Lehrer Show: The Hearts and Minds of the Battle

The Brian Lehrer Show

The Hearts and Minds of the Battle

Friday, September 29, 2006

Local residents of Tall Afar, Iraq ((U.S. Army))

It’s Issue 5 in our 2006 election series, 30 Issues in 30 Days: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. We’ll hear two views and ask what the findings of the National Intelligence Estimate reveal about the successes, and failures, of the US government’s ideology campaign. Also: Alan Hevesi 101, and what makes "exclusive" exclusive?

Hevesi 101

Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union and blogger
- talks about Alan Hevesi's latest political problems

» Times Union blog

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The New Exclusivity

Tim Pollak, Partner at Reason Inc., a marketing-strategy consulting firm, and columnist at Forbes.com
- discusses the democratization of luxury goods and what this means for the luxury market.

» Forbes.com
» Reason Inc.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: The Hearts and Minds of the Battle

Torie Clarke, Senior advisor to Comcast, former Pentagon communications chief, and author Lipstick on a Pig : Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game (Free Press, 2006)
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Rashid Khalidi, Director of the Middle East Institute and Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies ...

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Reading Project: Hugo Chavez at the UN

Greg Palast, investigative journalist who has written for The Washington Post, Harper's, and The Nation and author, The Armed Madhouse (Dutton Adult, 2006)
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa, journalist and senior fellow at The Independent Institute, and author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred ...

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