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The Brian Lehrer Show / November 15, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, November 15, 2004
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    Old World, New World, Free World

    In the fifteen years since the fall of the Berlin Wall Europe has become increasingly unified, and strains between the Old World and the New World have become more apparent. Author Timothy Garton Ash believes that to strengthen the ideal of the free world, Europe and the United States need to work together.

Jay Street, Washington

Jay Carney, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief, Time Magazine, on politics inside and outside the beltway
» Time Magazine

Catching the New Wave

George Sarrinikolauou, Greek, author, Facing Athens: Encounters With the Modern City
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Staceyann Chin, Jamaican-Chinese slam poet, on being a new immigrant in New York

Go West

Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford university, Senior Fellow at the Hoover institution, and author, Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004), says Washington can never rule the world alone

MoMA's Moment in the Sun

Alexandra Lange contributing editor to New York magazine, wrote the October 18 cover story on the New Museum of Modern Art says changes inside the new MoMA are as big as the ones on the outside
» New York Magazine
and
Dan Levenson creator of freemoma.org and an artist living in Brooklyn says MoMA got greedy and forgot its mission
» Free Moma

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!

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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.

Video Picks

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