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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 29, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, April 29, 2004
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    Academic Sweatshop

    Something is in the air in New York City, graduate teaching assistants have gone on strike at Columbia University and adjunct professors at NYU have just narrowly avoided one. In recent years universities have extended the classroom time of teaching assistants, but some feel they have not been compensated for their efforts.

A Link in the Cheney

Dahlia Lithwick Senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003) explains the Supreme Court hearings of Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla and the Dick Cheney/Energy Task force case
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Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney in New Jersey says the White House is overstepping in detaining Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla

Stand-Up Pundit

Mort Sahl stand-up comedian on his long history of political stand-up comedy

Note: We do not have permission to re-air Mort Sahl’s interview, which took place at 10:41:00-10:58:59

Nickel-and-Dimed in Academia

Shannan Clark 5th year History PhD candidate at Columbia University on the need for graduate students to organize and the current strike at Columbia
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Scott Smallwood Senior Reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering academic labor issues on academic laborers
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Kathleen Hull Adjunct Professor at NYU; active in ACT/UAW union; co-president of NYU’s American Assoc. Of University Professors (AAUP)on the university's reliance on adjunct professors
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Alexandra Lord acting historian for the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.; co-founder of Beyond Academe website on helping PhDs find work outside academia

Saudi Flights

Mark Hosenball Investigative correspondent for Newsweek explains the evacuation of the bin laden family on September 13, 2001

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.

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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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