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The Brian Lehrer Show / February 27, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, February 27, 2006
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  • Dealing Dogs

    Kennel Hell

    At Martin’s Creek Kennel in Arkansas, dogs were kept in tiny cages, beaten, and starved before being sold for research. Then an amateur filmmaker named Pete went undercover to work there, recording the kennel’s cruel practices for a new HBO documentary, "Dealing Dogs". Also, Monday morning politics with TNR's Peter Beinart, a new study shows Americans have more leisure time and a call-in for tenured professors.

Safe Harbor?

Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic
- on port security and the Supreme Court's upcoming cases

» Peter Beinart archive in The New Rebublic

A Howlin' Shame

Sarah Teale, filmmaker, "Dealing Dogs"
and
Tom Simon, filmmaker "Dealing Dogs"
- on their new HBO documentary investigating the mistreatment of dogs at a kennel that sells to researchers
» Dealing Dogs

Time Off

Erik Hurst, associate professor of Economics and the John Huizinga Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Graduate School and co-author of the study, "Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of TIme over Five Decades" (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston working paper)
- found Americans have more leisure time today
» Erik Hurst bio
and
Ellen Galinsky, President and co-founder of Families and Work Institute,
- says Americans feel more overworked than ever
» “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades” from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (opens a PDF)
» List of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Papers
» "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" executive summary (opens a PDF)
» Ellen Galinsky bio

Open Phones

Listeners call in to talk about the resignation of Harvard president Lawrence Summers

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.

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!

happiness

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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