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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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    Summer At The Kuchalayn

    Remember when the Catskills was a place to see Yiddish theater? What ever happened to Grossinger's and the Sha-Wan-Ga? Author Phil Brown grew up in the Borscht Belt before the soup went cold, a time when the mountains north of New York were a haven for working-class Jewish families.

A Sinking Ship? Worldcom Immersed in Accounting Fraud

Rebecca Blumenstein Reporter for The Wall Street Journal

The Political Fear Factor: New Jersey Tax Reform

Laura Mansnerus Reporter for the New York Times

Trombones Are From Mars: Gender Preferences For Music Instruments

Samantha Pickering PhD student at the School of Development and Learning at University of Sydney in Australia

Sugar and Spice and a Crosslinker of Polymers: The Chemical Recipe for the Stradivarius Violin

Joseph Nagyvary Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A & M University violins

Breaking the Sins of the Fathers: The Boston Globe's Investigative Report Of The Catholic Church

Walter Robinson Spotlight team editor for the Boston Globe And Ben Bradlee, Jr. Deputy Managing Editor for Projects for the Boston Globe

School's Out? Money, Politics, and Policy in Education

Michael Rebell Executive Director, Campaign for Fiscal Equity AND Beth FertigWNYC reporter AND Richard Briffault Vice Dean and Professor, Columbia University Law School

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

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Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

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