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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 05, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, April 05, 2005
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    Flat is the New Round

    With the end of the Cold War and the rapid advancement in software capabilities, national borders and long distances aren’t the impediments to globalization they once were. Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman joins guest host Mario Murillo to talk about his new book, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century."

WTC Report

Monica Gabrielle Member of Family Steering Committee, co-chair of Skyscraper safety campaign, lost her husband Richard in the South Tower on the WTC
- on her reactions towards the new NIST report.

Natural Juice

Nick Palazzo Publisher of Stack Magazine, a source for high school athletes that emphasizes healthy means to acquire strength
- discusses his magazine, Stack and the importance of healthy training for student athletes.
and
LaVonda Wagner assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Duke University and special contributor to Stack Magazine
- on training college athletes

Flat is the New Round

Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer-prize winnig New York Times columnist and author, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005),
- says globalization is quickly changing the balance of power
» Thomas L. Friedman
» NYT Magazine article adapted from the book

Open Phones

listeners call in to discuss lifting the ban on cell phones in public schools

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.

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