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House of Cards
At the height of the dotcom craze, the Industry Standard was the craziest of them all: a fledgling magazine that splurged $1million on an office it never used, sunk $8 million into software that didn't work, drank barrels of expensive champagne before folding in record time. Also on the show: pushing the limits of "applausability", and a Russian and and Aussie square off on Iraq.
Howard's End
John Dauth, Australian ambassador to the United Nations, on support for the US-British draft resolution
Putin On The Ritz
Alexander Pikayev, advisor for the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma and a scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center, on the Russian-Franco-German memorandum
The Laws of Applause
Peter Bull, senior lecturer in Psychology at Universityof York in the United Kingdom, on the conventions of clapping
Shelter Skelter
Bill de Blasio, member of City Council (D-39th), on Bloomberg's legal action to remove homeless individuals who violate shelter rules and the status of Council anti-war resolution
Standard Issue?
Jim Ledbetter, author of Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard (Perseus, 2002) on the failure of The Industry Standard, a magazine on the Internet industry
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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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.
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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!- Comments [172]
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.
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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.
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