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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 02, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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  • Miller Genuine Draft

    Gifford Miller’s career in the City Council is coming to a close, and now the Speaker has his eyes on Gracie Mansion. As part of the New York 51 series Miller talks about life in the Upper East Side and life on the campaign trail.

Thou Shalt Not Mess with the Establishment Clause

Susan Jacoby, Director of the New York Office of the Center for Inquiry, a secularist think tank and author, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (paperback edition: Owl Books, 2005)
» Center for Inquiry
and
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Co-director of Fordham Center on Religion and Culture,
» Center on Religion and Culture
and
Nancy Pearcey, Francis A Schaeffer Scholar at World Journalism Institute and author, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Crossway Books, 2004), on the proper role of religion in civic life
» Total Truth

DIY Knowledge

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, the online, user-edited encyclopedia
on the reliability of an encyclopedia anyone can edit
» Wikipedia Main Page
» Wikipedia's WNYC entry

Environmentalism RIP

Ted Nordhaus, Vice President with the Evans McDonagh polling firm, works with Strategic Values - a long term project to understand the social values of America
says the environmental movement is as good as dead without a radical overhaul
» Ted Nordhaus Bio
» Death of Environmentalism Reading Project
and
Jon Coifman, Acting Communications Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council says there's no need for an obituary of the environmental movement
» NRDC

New York 51: District 5

Gifford Miller City Council Speaker (D-5th district) discusses district 5 and his run for Mayor
» Speaker Gifford Miller
» NY 51

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.

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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.

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.

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