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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, December 16, 2002
  • Reality Bites

    War in the Middle East, a schizophrenic stock market and a humongous budget gap. That was the view from New York in the early 1970s. Veteran purse-mender Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation at the time, has suggestions for getting the Empire City out of its rut. Later, New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson says cutting recycling didn't help the budget. We'll also talk to the former CEO of IBM and find out how audiences are reacting to a new all-Asian production of "Flower Drum Song."

Cup Of Joe

David Lightman, Hartford Courant Washington Bureau Chief on US Senator Joe Lieberman's possible run for president

Show Me the Money

New York City Comptroller William Thompson on the city's loose finances

Tuning Up Big Blue

Louis Gerstner, Jr., current chairman of IBM, former CEO of IBM, and author of Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround (HarperBusiness, 2002), on the transformation of IBM from a computer manufacturer to one of the largest Internet companies around.

New York Poorhouse

Felix Rohatyn, former governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and chairman of the former New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, on what the New York city and state government could learn from the 1970s.

Une Nuit Blanche

WNYC’s Amy Eddings on the round-the-clock negotiations between the MTA and the transit union and the union rally this evening.

It's All Chop Suey to Me

Jack Tchen, associate professor of history and director of Asian/ Pacific/ American Studies at New York University www.apa.nyu.edu and founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas on the critics’ reviews of David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song, currently on Broadway

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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.

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