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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 29, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

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Fo Shizzle!

Muckraker Robert MacNeil has been bumming the backroads of the Home of the Brave, sampling the soup-to-nuts of American speech. It's a bling bling country, and it contains a bucketful of people bustin’ rhymes.
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Trouble in the Sky

Alexandra Marks, correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor, on the airline industry's turbulent financial situation
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Vaughn Cordle Chief Analyst for Airline Forecasts discusses structural problems facing airline industry
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Listening In

Sarah Kramer, Associate Director of StoryCorps, with more stories from StoryCorps
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Michael Garofalo, StoryCorps facilitator
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Fo Shizzle!

Robert MacNeil, former PBS Newshour anchor and co-author, Do You Speak American? (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005), says America is still teeming with wonderful dialects, accents, and regionalisms
» Do You Speak American?

Digging through The Reject Pile

Jon Friedman Creator, Producer & Curator of The Rejection Show on his show based on rejected comedy material
» Tremendous Rabbit
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Matt Diffee New Yorker Cartoonist, Co-producer, hosts rejected cartoon segment of The Rejection Show
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Live from the Greene Space: Michael Moore talks about his new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story and Brian celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the show with a 20 year news quiz.

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Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution!

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Richard Dawkins, biologist, professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and author of many books on science, most recently, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, talks about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was published on 24 November 1859.

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What's Next for the Movement?

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In the aftermath of President Obama's campaign, Kevin Powell, Brooklyn-based community activist has written a new book, Open Letters to America: Essays by Kevin Powell, outlining his thoughts about political engagement, particularly among African-American youth.