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The Brian Lehrer Show / February 03, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, February 03, 2006
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  • Jackie Spinner
    Jackie Spinner

    A Life Less Ordinary

    "The biggest challenge of cooking in Iraq was finding ingredients," writes Washington Post journalist Jackie Spinner, in her new book, Tell Them I Didn’t Cry. In the 10 months she spent in Iraq in 2004-2005, she found that keeping her vegetarian diet was one way to stay sane. Also:

Kicking Up The Dirt

Thomas Zambito, Manhattan Federal Court House reporter for the New York Daily News
- on suit against Christie Todd Whitman and the EPA over the air at Ground Zero

» "Judge hot over 9/11 air" by Thomas Zambito in the New York Daily News

A Life Less Ordinary

Jackie Spinner, staff writer for the Washington Post and author, Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq (Scribner, 2006) and
Jenny Spinner, assistant professor of English at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia
- on Jackie's experiences reporting from Iraq, and her twin, Jenny's, fears for her safety

» Tell Them I Didn't Cry (Scribner)

What Would Lincoln Do?

Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian, author, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
- how Abraham Lincoln kept his enemies close

» Team of Rivals (Simon & Schuster)

i of the Tiger

Jon Fine, media columnist for Business Week
- on the resurgence of the worst hits of the 70s and 80s to iTunes

» Fine on Media, Jon Fine's blog at Business Week online

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.