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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 09, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, January 09, 2004
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  • Department of Defense

    Kurd It Through The Grapevine

    Iraq’s Kurds were enthusiastic supporters of American intervention in Iraq, but they’re now asking a lot in return. The Washington-based representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, an Iraqi-Kurdish political party, explains his group’s political aspirations.

State of Grace

Dominic Carter NY1 reporter and co-host of NY1's nightly political show, "Inside City Hall"
and
Joe Mahoney Albany Bureau Chief, New York Daily News
and
Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent and a contributing editor for New Jersey Monthly
Discuss the state of the New York City and the states of New Jersey and New York

Mars Wars

Jack Spencer Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation
on the cost of space exploration and whether the money could be better spent on more earthly programs, such as arts education.

Rush to Judgment

Rush Holt Congressman (D-NJ)
on the Diebold (voting machine) scandal

Bursting the Saddam

Mohammad Sabir Representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the United States and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Sulaymaniyah
on the story behind the capture of Saddam Hussein and autonomy for Kurds in Iraq

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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.

Video Picks

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