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The Brian Lehrer Show / November 02, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, November 02, 2006
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  • U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) makes a hand gesture during a debate on October 23.(Getty Images)
    U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) makes a hand gesture during a debate on October 23. (Getty Images)

    Left, Right and . . . Independent

    Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman – will he convince voters to support him as an Independent after he lost the Democratic primary? And is he part of a new centrist political movement in his alliance with Mayor Bloomberg? Also, the Republican candidate in the Connecticut race, Alan Schlesinger; 30 Issues in 30 Days, #29 – “Is Polarization Inevitable in American Politics?” with Bowling Alone author Robert Putnam and NPR’s Juan Williams; and a woman who runs and children’s home/yoga retreat in the Sacred Valley of Peru.

The Candidates

Senator Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator (D-CT), running as the independent candidate this year
- on his bid for re-election on the independent line
and
Alan Schlesinger, Republican candidate for Connecticut
- wants to take Connecticut's Republican votes

Sacred Passages

Kia Ingenlath , visionary who runs a home for children in the Sacred Valley in Peru
- tells us her life story and how she takes care of 30 children in Peru

Chandler Sky Foundation

30 Issues in 30 Days: Is Polarization Inevitable in American Politics?

Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and author, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It (Crown, 2006)
and
Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and author, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (in Paperback, Touchstone Books, 2001) and Better Together: Restoring the American Community (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- discuss the level of political polarization in the U.S. and how it will effect the mid-term elections

Wine is Fine

Stephen Helfand , professor of Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry at Brown University,
and
Howard Eisenson, M.D., director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center,
- on the highly publicized new study showing a substance found in red wine (and other foods) negates the health effects of a bad diet ... in mice

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