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Friday, September 22, 2006
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    Reading Project: Pope Benedict’s Speech at University of Regensburg

    Your calls on our latest Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project: the full text of the speech by Pope Benedict that has so upset Muslims. Read the Pope’s remarks in their full context then call in when we discuss the speech on air with Christian and Muslim guests.

Chavez Heats Up Harlem

Tavis Smiley, host, The Tavis Smiley Show, which airs Fridays at 9PM and Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM on AM 820
- discusses the appearance of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez at Harlem’s Olivet Baptist Church.

» http://www.tavistalks.com

Exonerated in Canada

Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights
and
Michelle Shepard, national security reporter for the Toronto Star
- talk about the rendition of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen who was held without trial and tortured in a Syrian jail cell.

» Center for Constitutional Rights
» Maher Arar's website

Exonerated in Westchester

Nina Morrison, a staff attorney with the Innocence Project
and
Jonathan Hicks, political writer for the New York Times
-discuss Jeffrey Deskovic, a man wrongfully convicted of rape and murder, and the implications of his case on Jeanine Pirro's campaign for Attorney General.

» The Innocence Project
» Jonathan Hick's New York Times Article

Papal Controversy: A Roundtable Discussion

John L. Allen Jr. , Vatican correspondent, National Catholic Reporter, and author of The Rise of Benedict the XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church (Random House, 2006)
and
Irshad Manji , author of The Trouble with Islam Today (St. Martin's Press, 2005)
and
Fawaz Gerges , Carnegie Scholar, visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, and author of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt, 2006)
and
Reza Aslan , Middle East Correspondent for CBS News and author of No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Random House, March 2005)
- discuss Pope Benedict the XVI's speech and the reaction it's provoked around the world.

» National Catholic Reporter
» Irshad Manji's website
» Reza Aslan's website
» Read the Pope’s remarks

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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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