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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, April 24, 2006
  • Former NFL football player Esera Tuaolo (Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
    Former NFL football player Esera Tuaolo (Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

    Offside

    While he still was an Atlanta Falcon, defensive tackle Esera Tuaolo kept his gay relationship a secret. But after leaving the NFL, he went public, introducing the world to his partner and two adopted kids, and netting some major advertising endorsements. Also: the most famous foreign policy guru you've never heard of, Monday morning politics, and your calls.

Monday Morning Politics

Ted Alden, Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times
- discusses the news out of Washington D.C.
and
Sharon Hom executive director of the organization Human Rights in China (HRIC)
- on President Hu Jintao's visit to the US and his discussions with President Bush and business leaders

» Human Rights in China

Offside

Esera Tuaolo, former Atlanta Falcon defensive tackle and author, Alone in the Trenches: My Life As a Gay Man in the NFL (Sourcebooks, 2006)
- on being gay in the NFL

» Alone in the Trenches: My Life As a Gay Man in the NFL (Sourcebooks)

The Most Famous Foreign Policy Guru You've Never Heard Of

Molly Worthen, author, The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
-on her book about an influential professor at Yale

» The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost (Houghton Mifflin)

Open Phones

-Are you a pragmatic progressive woman?

» Abortion debate shuns prevention by Harry Reid and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Albany Times Union

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

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