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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, December 29, 2003
  • Daddy Dearest

    Every year, thousands of fathers do not become a part of their children’s lives because they fear the courts or their ex-wives. Many dads are unaware that they have basic parental rights, even if they do not have custody. Also, growing pains in the U.S. military, regifting, and a Bronx family tale.

A Dana in the Life

Dana Priest Washington Post reporter and author, The Mission: Waging War And Keeping Peace With America's Military (Norton, 2003)
helps us with our weekly political roundup

The Gift

Bill Dodd President of Biltmore Communications (an Internet Service Provider in Atlanta) and owner of the Patent for a online regifting technology
wants to allow people to regift online presents before receiving them

Bronx Tales

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Author Random Family (Scribner, 2003)
discusses her book on the in-jail, out-of-jail life of several Bronx teens.

Daddy Dearest

Eric Legette founder and president of Fathers with Voices
on the rights of divorced fathers

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.