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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 17, 2003

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, July 17, 2003
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  • Allah, My Children!

    A short walk from the hubbub of downtown Flushing, the pink granite mosque of the Muslim Center of New York is a beacon for Muslims throughout the borough. With over 3,000 members who speak more than 96 languages, it's a microcosm of the entire Islamic world. Also on the show: Blair skips the Tony awards, the world's zaniest contracts, and what Iraqis really think of the new Iraqi governing council.

In The Dragon's Blair

Richard Wolffe, senior diplomatic correspondent with Newsweek and author of The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust (Harper Collins, 2002), on Tony Blair's visit to the U.S.

Just Sign on the Dotted Line…

Co-authors Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and Supreme Court correspondent for Slate.com and Brandt Goldstein, a Washington writer and lawyer, on their book Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman, 2003)

Cabinet-Makers

Patrick Tyler, New York Times chief correspondent, currently in Baghdad, on Iraq's interim council and the selection of a new cabinet

The Center of It All

M. T. Sherwani, director of the Muslim Center of New York in Flushing, introduces Queens' largest Muslim congregation and R. Scott Hanson, he's completing a book, City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens--New York City, 1945-2000, which is under review at Oxford University Press. http://www.philau.edu/schools/gs/

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!

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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!

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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.

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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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