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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 21, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, March 21, 2005

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500 Years of Servitude

Whether influenced by Karl Marx or Milton Friedman, Latin American economies have yet to achieve their potential and much of the population lives below the poverty line. Peruvian Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers his analysis and prescription for change for the region.
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Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation and co-editor with Robert Borosage, Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right (Nation Books, 2004),
discusses Monday morning politics and reaction to Paul Wolfowitz' nomination to head the World Bank
» The Nation Magazine

Islamic Mixer

Mona Eltahawy, Columnist for the pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and board member, Progressive Muslim Union of North American, on Friday's mixed-gender Muslim prayer service in New York
» Mona Eltahawy website

Five Hundred Years of Servitude

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, journalist, columnist, Senior Fellow with the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute and author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Fiver Hudnred Years of State Oppression-discusses the source of oppression in Latin American and how it can be removed
» More on Llosa at the Independent Institute

NY 51: East Side Manhattan

Eva Moskowitz, Councilwoman (D-4th District-Upper East Side),
-on life and politics in her district
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» NY 51 Main Page

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