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The Brian Lehrer Show / September 21, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, September 21, 2006
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    The Skinny

    There’s the minimum wage, but what about the minimum weight? Spain is now enforcing a health standard for models during Fashion Week – if they’re 5’9”, they must weigh at least 125 lbs. Should New York’s fashion industry do the same thing? And why super-skinny is super “in.” Plus, a new theory of national stability – The J Curve; what happened to the transit cuts? And does Mexico have two presidents?

Transit Talk

Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
and
Nicole Gelinas, contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute's City Journal
- on possible MTA fare hikes and service cuts

The Skinny On Fashion

Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times columnist, and contributor to Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women (Washington Square Press, 2005)
and
Laird Borrelli, senior features editor, Style.com, and author Fashion Illustration Next (Thames and Hudson, 2004) Net Mode: Web Fashion Now (Thames & Hudson, 2002)
- discuss the new ban on skinny models

Style.com
Sex and Sensibility available for purchase at Amazon.com
Fashion Illustration Next available for purchase at Amazon.com
Net Mode: Web Fashion Now available for purchase at Amazon.com

J School

Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy and author, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
and
Jim Hoge, Editor of Foreign Affairs
- offer a new way to analyze a country's stability , as a function of its openess

The Eurasia Group

The J Curve is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Event:
Ian Bremmer will be at Borders (57th & Park) at 7PM tonight.

Mexico Dividido?

Sarah Llana, Mexico City and Latin America bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor
- talks about the current political situation in Mexico

» Christian Science Monitor

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