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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 13, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, April 13, 2006
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  • oil

    It's Hard Out There For A Pump

    As gas prices continue to rise, drivers are hit hard at the pump while the profits of oil companies are soaring. Are the oil industry’s billions fair on consumers? Also: when to tuck your tail and give up on the New York dream, how NYC principals are being put to the test and your phone calls on what Easter, Passover and Maulid mean to you.

Oil Be Damned

Tyson Slocum, research director with Public Citizen's energy program
and
Myron Ebell, director of energy policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a market-oriented think tank
- debate the rising price of oil and who ultimately pays

» Tyson Slocum's testimony before the Senate on gas prices
» Myron Ebell's bio at CEI

Knowing When to Quit Is Half of Winning

Rachel Hutton
and
Christina Amini, co-editors of Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
and
Rachel Jacobson, director of Film Streams in Omaha, Nebraska and former WNYC employee
- on knowing when to wake-up and drop out of the great New York dream

»"Before the Mortgage" website

Grading the Graders

Jill Levy, President of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, New York City's union for principals
- on the Department of Education's plan to grade principals as well as students

» Council of School Supervisors and Administrators

Open Phones

-listeners' calls on what the rebirth of Christ, the birth of Mohammed and the flight from the Paraoh means for them.

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.

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.