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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 29, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, March 29, 2004
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  • Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw

    Mommy Careerist

    It’s been 41 years since The Feminine Mystique was published, but the work-family conundrum continues to annoy and fascinate American women. Psychologist Daphne de Marneffe believes the Carrie Bradshaws of the world should take motherhood seriously.

    "You will fill up the jails real quick if you start hooking up Senators up to lie detector tests about all the partisan comments they make...."
    John Harwood commentator for The Wall Street Journal, commenting on Majority Leader Bill Frist’s speech, where he stated that Richard Clarke may have perjured himself.

Fire and Rice

John Harwood political editor of the Wall Street Journal discusses the political news of the week

Justice Delayed

Morgan Pehme on the documentary on Emmett Till's death and his work on a feature length film on the murder of Emmett Till
and
Keith Beauchamp producer and director of forthcoming documentary about the murder of Emmett Till on his discovery of eyewitnesses to Emmett Till's 1955 murder and his efforts to have the federal government investigate further

Mommy Careerist

Daphne de Marneffe, Ph.D Psychologist and author, Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life (Little Brown and Company, 2004)on the desire of motherhood

Smoking Ban: Open PHones

What did you do this weekend?

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.

paper trail small

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!

happiness

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.