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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 19, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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  • A view of the Atlantic Yards High Rise Arena project wiht the Williamsburg Bank Building in the far left.
    A view of the proposed Atlantic Yards High Rise Arena project with the Williamsburg Bank Building in the far left. (Gehry Partners)

    On Impact

    The Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Yards Development Project offers more ammunition in the battle between the developers and the neighborhood preservationists. Plus: actor and playwright Wallace Shawn on the release of a cd of his 1990 one-man play, The Fever, about a traveler who falls ill in an unnamed Latin American country; and the continuing developments in Lebanon and Israel.

On Impact

Jeff Baker, attorney for Develop Don't Destroy and partner at Young and Sommer
- is against the Atlantic Yards Development
and
Jim Stuckey, president of the Atlantic Yards Development Group
- on the Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Yards project

» Forest City
» Develop Don't Destroy
» Young Sommer
» "Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)" released by the ESDC yesterday.

Class-born Illness

Wallace Shawn, actor and playwright
- on the cd version of his one-man performance, The Fever

» Wallace Shawn’s wikipedia entry
» The Fever cd

Opening The Gates to Hell and Madness

Rami Khouri, editor-at-large, the Daily Star, Beirut's English language daily
- on the escalating situation between Lebanon and Israel and his attempt to get back to Beirut
and
Charles Krauthammer, columnist for the Washington Post
-gives his take on the Middle East conflict

» The Daily Star
» Charles Krauthammer's columns

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.