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The Brian Lehrer Show / November 10, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, November 10, 2005
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  • February '68

    Six months after the Summer of Love, a young reporter named Lewis Lapham traveled to India to participate in a gathering that included celebrities like The Beatles and Mia Farrow, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a proponent of transcendental meditation. In a new book, he shares the true story of the legendary confab.

Our Immigrants, Their Immigrants

Jonathan Laurence, professor of political science at Boston College and affiliated scholar with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution
- on the problems of intergration of immigrants in France
and
Joel Kotkin, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author, The City: A Modern History (Modern Library 2005) and The New Geography, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000)
- on why Muslim immigrants here in the US are integrated

» Boston College Professor Laurence's Bio
» Jonathan Laurence's Website
» http://www.joelkotkin.com/">Joel Kotkin's Website

We Built This City

Kate Ascher, executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and author, The Works: Anatomy of a City (Penguin, 2005)
- on everything you wanted to know about the inner workings of a city

The Meddle East?

Robert Fisk, journalist and author, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Knopf, 2005)
- with a political history of the middle east

» Robert Fisk's website

February '68

Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine and author, With the Beatles (Melville House, 2005),
-says it's good to harbor doubts

» With the Beatles (Melville House, 2005)

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!

(<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.

Video Picks

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