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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, April 21, 2006
  • Ga-Ga for Gu-Ge

    Google angered human rights activists when it agreed to censor web searches in China earlier this year. The New York Times Magazine writer Clive Thompson joins guest host Siddhartha Mitter. He believes an appetite for curiosity in the country will overcome the restrictions. Plus: can retired members of the military get court-martialed for speaking out against their civilian leaders?, breaking news from Nepal and listeners call in with their music picks.

Ga-ga for Gu-Ge

Clive Thompson, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine
- what Google's restricted presence in China says about the country's plans for the internet

» The New York Times Magazine

Civvies Civics

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
- on the history of and rules for military criticism of civilian leadership

» James Fallows' website

Trouble in Shangri-La

Somini Sengupta, South Asia bureau chief for The New York Times
and
Ashok Gurung, director of the India China Institute at New School University in New York and faculty member at the graduate program in international affairs
- on the latest from Nepal

» Somini Sengupta in The New York Times
» Ashok Gurung bio

Open Phones

- listeners share what music they are playing on their ipods... or tapedecks

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