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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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  • Rudy's Time

    While Rudy Giuliani was dubbed “America’s Mayor” after 9/11, the creators of a new documentary called Giuliani Time want to highlight his New York policies as he considers a run for the presidency. Plus: the latest on the NSA and telephone companies, FDNY counselors look at what has and has not worked in treating World Trade Center survivors and Ian Buruma and Irshad Manji on Somali-born, Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali's blend of liberal and conservative politics.

Bugging Out

Mark Hosenball, investigative journalist at Newsweek,
- on the latest in the NSA wiretapping story
and
Jeff Battcher, Vice President of Corporate Communications, BellSouth,
- says his company did not provide phone records to the NSA

» Bellsouth
» Hold the Phone

Loss Lessons

Paul Greene, associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Iona College, a firehouse clinician for the Counseling Services Unit of the FDNY
and
Dianne Kane, assistant director of the FDNY Counseling Services Unit, adjunct associate professor at Hunter College
co-authors, FDNY Crisis Counseling: Innovative Responses to 9/11 Firefighters, Families, and Communities (Wiley, 2006)
- on what was learned by crisis counselors in helpling with 9/11 responders

» Professor Greene's website
» FDNY Counseling Services Unit

Giuliani's Time

Kevin Keating, director of the film, Giuliani Time,
and
Clyde Haberman, metro columnist for The New York Times,
- talks about Keating's documentary and the Mayor, pre- and post- 9/11

» Giuliani Time

In Dutch with the Dutch

Ian Buruma, journalist and author, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (Penguin USA, forthcoming) and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (Penguin Press, 2004)
and
Irshad Manji, author, The Trouble with Islam Today (St. Martin's Press, paperback 2005)
- on Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the tolerance of intolerance

» Ian Buruma's website
» Irshad Manji's website

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.