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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, April 05, 2004
  • Keyspan Park on Coney Island

    Boys of Summer

    An era ended when the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957. It took 44 years for the sport to return to the borough, but today the Brooklyn Cyclones, who play at Keyspan Park on Coney Island, have proved that Kings County still knows how to hit a homer. Also, the art and science of making political ads, the latest on unrest in Iraq, Colombia’s ongoing nightmare, and your calls on the smoker’s life.

The Pluses and Minuses of Ads

Bill Hillsman CEO and Chief Creative Officer of North Woods Advertising, a marketing communications and political and public affairs consulting company based in Minneapolis, former consultant to Senator Paul Wellstone, and author, Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time (The Free Press, 2004)analyzes the mud that has been slung so far this political season

Live From Baghdad

Rod Nordeland Baghdad Bureau Chief, Newsweek Magazine on the situation in Iraq

Whirlwind Baseball

Ben Osborne Author, The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island NYU Press 2004 on his book and the Brooklyn Cyclones

Basket Case

Mario Murillo assistant professor at the School of Communication at Hofstra University and author, Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest, and Destabilization (Seven Stories Press, 2004)explains Colombia's continuing nightmare

Listener Call Ins

Apologies for our April Fools joke.

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

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