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The Crystal Ball
What does 2003 have in store for you? Your town? The world? We've been soliciting your e-mail predictions for days. Today we read them on air, take your calls on the year ahead, and hear from Frank Rich, and other perceptive predictors. Also on the show, Brazil's Lula is sworn in as President today. And: a new way to make good on old goals.
What's In Store For 2003?
Some of the best and brightest reporters and newsmakers who have been on the Brian Lehrer show this past year share their predictions for 2003.
- New York Times columnist Frank Rich
- Syndicated Columnist, Financial Times Amity Shlaes
- Editor-Publisher of the Haitian Times Garry Pierre-Pierre
- City Councilmember Bill de Blasio (D-39)
- Publisher, editor, writer, designer, etc. of Backwash, Marc Hartzman, author of Found on Ebay: 100 Genuinely Bizarre Items from the World's Online Yard Sale (Universe Publishing, 2002)
- Syndicated columnist, Norah Vincent
- Irish Times columnist, Nuala O'Faolain, author of Are You Somebody (Owl Books, 1999) and My Dream Of You (recently released in paperback by Riverhead Books)
- Newsday columnist Ellis Henican
- Senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal Charles Gasparino
- Michael Myers, director of New York Civil Rights Coalition and a columnist for the New York Post
- The Ethicist, Randy Cohen of New York Times Magazine
- New Jersey’s The Record columnist Mike Kelly
- WNYC’s cultural advisor and Entertainment Weekly film critic, Owen Gleiberman
- Heather MacDonald, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of the forthcoming Are Cops Racist?: How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans (Ivan R Dee, Dec 2002) and last but not least
- Meghan Daum, journalist and author of My Misspent Youth (Open City Books, 2001)
Viva Lula!
Kenneth Rapoza, based in Brazil and a freelance reporter who writes for the Boston Globe and has been covering the recent elections for TheWorld Press Review, on the inauguration of Brazilian president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva.
Dean's List: A Democratic Agenda
Vermont governor, Howard Dean (D) on what he would do if he won the presidency.
The Road To Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
Anthony Helmstetter, co-founder of mygoals.com, on his website to help people stick to their New Years resolutions.
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