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The Brian Lehrer Show / February 17, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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  • Our Cheatin’ Hearts

    In his recent State of the Union Address, President Bush slammed the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports. From steroids to Tyco’s cooked books to Jason Blair’s poached newspaper stories, it sometimes seems cheating has infected public life in America.

    "If it was so great and so wonderful, why go in the closet in the first place?"
    --Walter, a caller, on homosexuality

Off Shore Outsourcing…A Good Thing?

Ronil Hira Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
on off shore outsourcing of white collar jobs

Bad to the Bone

Marc Joseph photographer, American Pitbull(Steidl Publishers, 2004)
on the much-maligned dog, the pit bull, and his new collection of photographs of the dogs and their owners and Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr. New York State Assembly, 85th District
on anti-pit bull legislation

The Cheat Is On

David Callahan co-founder and director of research at Demos, a public policy center, and author, The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead (Harcourt , 2004)
says professional ethics have gone down the drain in America

I Now Pronounce You Man And Precedent

Listener Call Ins on gay marriages taking place in San Francisco.

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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