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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 31, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, March 31, 2005
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  • Still Waters Run Deep

    Legendary theater director Peter Brook just started a month long residency at Columbia University. Last night his play Tierno Bokar made its U.S. premiere. The play centers around a Sufi mystic in 1930s Africa and the rise of religious factionalism. Brook talks about his craft and the importance of tolerance.

Superbowl Sweepstakes

John Cassidy, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and author, Dot.Con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era (Perennial, 2003)),
- the latest on Mayor Bloomberg's fight to put a football stadium on the West Side of Manhattan
» Q&A with John Cassidy
and
Andrea BernsteinWNYC Reporter live at MTA headquarters for the vote on sale of the Hudson Yards
» WNYC

White Boy Learns Spanish: Tercera Clase

Nelson Antonio Denis, writer/director of "Vote for Me!", and former NYS assemblyman, teaches Brian Spanish and about Latin Cuisine
and
Jorge Ayalla chef and owner of La Fonda Boricua on the food he prepares at his restaurant
» La Fonda Boricua

More, More, More

Peter C. Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and author, American Mania: When More is Not Enough (W.W. Norton & Company, 2005),
- on the biological reasons that too much is not enough for most Americans
» Peter Whybrow

Still Waters Run Deep

Peter Brook, pioneering director of theater, opera and film, and founder of the Paris-based company, the International Center for Theatre Creations,
- on bringing his company and their production of "Tierno Bokar" to Columbia University for a month-long residency
» more on Peter Brook
and
Gregory Mosher, Director of the Columbia University Arts Initiative, former head of Lincoln Center Theater and a producer and director of nearly two hundred stage productions,
- on the Arts Initiative's role in bringing Peter Brook and "Tierno Bokar" to Columbia
» Tierno Bokar website
and
Voza Rivers, theater, music, film and special events producer and chairman of the Harlem Arts Alliance,
- on partnering with the Columbia University to bring the production of Tierno Bokar to the Harlem community
» Harlem Arts Alliance

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!

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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.

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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