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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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  • Zacarias Moussaoui
    Zacarias Moussaoui

    Witless for the Prosecution?

    The judge overseeing the Zacarias Moussaoui case has said "in all my years on the bench, I've never seen a more egregious violation of the rule about witnesses." When a federal lawyer broke protocol in talking with a witness, did she doom the high-profile prosecution?

    Today's Guest Host: Daljit Dhaliwal

Witless for the Prosecution?

Paul W. Butler, former prosecutor in the Africa Embassy bombings trial; member of the Council on Foreign Relations now in private practice in Washington D.C.
and
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman, 2003)

» "Did Zacarias Moussaoui really 'cause' 9/11?" on Slate.

Cash Flow

Michelle Singletary writes "The Color of Money," a column on personal finance, for the Washington Post and is the author of Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Spend Well and Live Rich(Random House 2006)
a book dispensing advice on money and relationships.

»Michelle Singletary's website

"With Tax Season Come Questions" by Michelle Singletary in the Washington Post.

The Nature of Man

Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for the New Yorker; author of Field Notes From a Catastrophe : Man, Nature and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006)
- says climate change is real, whether we like it or not.


» Field Notes (Bloomsbury)
» Elizabeth Kolbert's articles in the New Yorker.

Open Phones

Your calls on secret double lives.

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!

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.

Video Picks

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