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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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    Do You Have What It Takes To Go To Harvard?

    With tuition surpassing $40,000 a year at many private colleges, some middle-income parents are telling their kids to pay for college themselves. But should a 22-year-old ever graduate with over $100,000 in debt? Also: Iran claims to have joined the nuclear club.

Iran: We Have Joined the Club

Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief of Al Hayat
and
Arye Mekel, Israeli consul-general in New York
and
David Albright, president of the Institute of Science and International Security and former UN weapons inspector
- on Iran's claim to have enriched uranium

» Dar Al Hayat (Al Hayat's English page)
» The Israeli Consulate in New York
»Biography of David Albright

Fitting the Bill

Ellen Frishberg, director of student financial services at Johns Hopkins University
and
Janet Bodnar, deputy editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, writes the column "Money Smart Kids" and author, Raising Money Smart Kids (Kaplan, 2005)
- discuss why parents are trying to get their kids to pay for college

» Johns Hopkins admissions
»"Money Smart Kids" by Janet Bodnar

ABC to Affiliates, "Get Lost"

Steve Safran, managing editor of Lost Remote, a blog about the TV business, also a digital media consultant and director of digital media at New England Cable News in Boston
- the impact of Disney's move to streams shows online

» Lost Remote

Market to Gas Prices, "We're Here to Pump You Up"

Peter Coy, columnist for BusinessWeek,
- on why gas prices are still spiking 7 months after Hurricane Katrina

Open Phones

-listeners' calls on the poor's noblesse oblige to the rich

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.

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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.

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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.