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The Brian Lehrer Show / May 15, 2006

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Monday, May 15, 2006
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  • A view of the proposed Atlantic Yards High Rise Arena project. (Gehry Partners)
    A view of the proposed Atlantic Yards High Rise Arena project. (Gehry Partners)

    Can’t See the Forest

    Forest City Ratner VP Jim Stuckey says architect Frank Gehry’s new slightly scaled-down plans for the Atlantic Yards arena development in Brooklyn make it a better fit in the neighborhood. Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, which opposes the project, disagrees. Plus: Monday Morning Politics, the editors of a new literary arts and politics journal on American writing today and the Part D deadline.

Monday Morning Politics

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, blogger and co-author,
and
Jerome Armstrong, blogger and co-author, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics (Chelsea Green Publishing)

» Daily Kos.com
» MyDD.com

n Print

Keith Gessen, co-founding editor of literary and political journal n+1 and contributor to New York magazine and New York Review of Books
and
Mark Greif co-founding editor of the literary journal n+1 and frequent contributor to American Prospect
- on the state of American writing, New York intellectuals and running a literary journal

» n+1
» Panel discussion at the Kitchen

Crossing Atlantic

Jim Stuckey, president of the Atlantic Yards project
- on the development plans for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn
and
Daniel Goldstein, spokesperson, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
- thinks the development plans are too out of scale for the neighborhood

» Forest City Ratner
» Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn

Down to the Wire

Robert Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center
- on picking a prescription drug benefit plan before tonight's deadline
» Medicare Rights Center
» Medicare

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!

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.