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The Brian Lehrer Show / June 25, 2002

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, June 25, 2002
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  • A Queer Right

    To be a gay activist used to automatically mean you were a liberal. But recently gay and lesbian conservatives like Andrew Sullivan have stolen the media spotlight. Has society then become more accepting of diversity, or just more hungry for the odd and unexpected?

A More Democratic Death Sentence: Recent Criminal Rulings Of The Supreme Court

Chester Mirsky Professor of Clinical Law at New York University

A PATH To Nowhere? Local Oppostion to the Proposed PATH Expansion

Ben Green Co-Chair, Christopher St. Preservation Alliance

A Queer Right: The Rise of Homosexual Conservatives

Richard Goldstein Executive Editor of The Village Voice and Author, "The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right" (Verso, 2002)

The Beat Goes On: Arabs And Jews March To Different Drummers

Marcia Kannry Founder of the Dialogue Project And Eddy Ehrlich Occupational Therapist and Member of the Dialogue Group And Bassam Amin Community Activist, Pharmacist, and Member of the Dialogue Group

Transit Meter: The 10th Anniversary Of Poetry in Motion

Alice Quinn Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and the Poetry Editor at the New YorkerMTA

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.