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The Brian Lehrer Show / August 08, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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  • Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006
    Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006 (Photo by Bob Falcetti/Getty Images)

    Dis-Connecticut

    Senator Joe Lieberman meets challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut’s Democratic primary -- an election that both parties are watching to gauge the effect of the Iraq War on the electorate. Connecticut Democrats have a chance to call in and register their votes in a Brian Lehrer Show informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll. Plus, What Have We Learned about memorials and memorializing since 9/11? and what do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

Dis-Connecticut

Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect magazine
- discusses the Connecticut primary and whether Joe Lieberman can connect with the electorate

Gaging Joementum

Sue Haigh, Connecticut political reporter for the Associated Press
-assesses voter turnout in Norwich, Connecticut
and
Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Secretary of State.

Un Exit Poll

Connecticut Democrats call in for an unofficial, unscientific exit poll to say whom they voted for in today's primary: Senator Joe Lieberman of challenger Ned Lamont

What Have We Learned: Memorial

James E. Young, Ground Zero Memorial Jurist, Professor and Chair of the Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author, At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2002)
and
Michael J. Lewis, teaches at Williams College, and author, American Art and Architecture(Thames & Hudson, 2006)
and
Paul Goldberger,Dean of Parsons School of Design and the architecture critic for the New Yorker and author, Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York(Random House, 2004)
-on the process of memorializing and the Ground Zero Memorial

I Wish I'd . . .

Listeners call in to answer the "deathbed" question: What do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

Michael Moore on Brian's 20th Anniversary

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Live from the Greene Space: Michael Moore talks about his new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story and Brian celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the show with a 20 year news quiz.

Season's Eatings

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December guests Tamara Reynolds and Zora O'Neill will be answering your holiday hosting questions each week. Segments so far: Holiday Traditions | Gifting Food | Hosting on a Budget

Also check out the live online chats with Tamara and Zora, where they answer all your hosting questions. Chat #1 | Chat #2

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariachily/3330743790/">mariachily</a>/flickr)

Climbing K2: Life and Death

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Ed Viesturs, the first American to climb all fourteen eight-thousand meter mountains, and one of only six to do so without oxygen, discusses his new book K2: Life & Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Broadway, 2009).

SUNY Disposition

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State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher, discusses the pressures the system faces and the role it plays in the current economic climate.

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.

Help us map abandoned lots, stalled construction and unsold condos.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.