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The Brian Lehrer Show / February 17, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, February 17, 2006
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  • Beggar

    Ms. Moneybags

    Women’s clothing usually doesn’t have pockets, and maybe that’s one reason many women feel uncomfortable talking about how much money they make. In her new book, Money: a Memoir, Liz Perle shares the story of how a divorce and the ensuing financial shakeup forced her to confront the size of her paycheck. Also: the trouble with "boot camp", Tom Suozzi's face-off with Eliot Spitzer, and the Radio Rookies.

Capital News

Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union and blogger
and
Jim Rutenberg, reporter for the New York Times
- summarize the news out of Albany and New York City Hall

» Times-Union Blog
» "City Proposes Tougher Limits on Lobbyists" by Jim Rutenberg and Winnie Hu in the The New York Times

Cash Complex

Liz Perle, editor in chief of Common Sense Media and author, Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash (Henry Holt and Company, 2006)
- on women's complicated relationship to money

» Money, A Memoir (Henry Holt and Company)

Teenage Wasteland

Maia Szalavitz, senior fellow at stats.org, a media watchdog group, and author, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Costs Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006),
- on the downside of "tough love" boot camps for young adults

» Help at Any Cost (Riverhead)

Radio Rookies

Kaari Pitkin, senior producer, WNYC's Radio Rookies
and
Edward Llanos, high school student
and
Amina Tariq, high school student
- on life in Elmhurst

» WNYC Radio Rookies

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.

paper trail small

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.