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The Brian Lehrer Show / June 11, 2003

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, June 11, 2003
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  • Benign Intervention

    Foreign policy wonks Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell, and Robert Kagan, author of Of Paradise and Power, both favor the US taking an active role in foreign affairs, but disagree on nearly everything else. Power advocates for "enlightened self-interest" and consistent support for human rights. Kagan supports the establishment of an international order favorable to the US. Also on the show: On The Media's Arun Rath reviews political theater in Calcutta.

Pay More, Weigh Less?

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-51st District-Gowanus, Red Hook, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn) wants to tax junk food

Filibusted

Robert Bennett, professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University and author of Talking it Through: Puzzles of American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2002), explains the filibuster

The Tapes of Rath

Arun Rath, senior producer for On The Media, reported on an opera about Osama Bin Laden for PBS' Frontline (airs this Thursday)

Benign Intervention

Robert Kagan, head of the US Leadership program and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, project director at the Project for a New American Century and author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Knopf, 2003) and Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy and founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and author of Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins, 2003), on the future of American foreign policy and intervention

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.

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