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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
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    There Goes the Neighborhood

    In the forty years since the Civil Rights Movement what has happened to integration in our cities? William Julius Wilson talks about why our cities are diverse but not integrated in terms of race or class. Plus, the winner of the Vendy Awards, which celebrates excellence in street cuisine.

If I Had a Book Deal....

Sarah Crichton, publisher of Sarah Crichton Books, a new imprint at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and co-author, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl (Scribner Book Company)
- talks about why OJ Simpson and the book deal that wasn't

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl available for purchase at Amazon.com

Going Into Laborers

Kevin Plunket, Partner in the law firm Thacher Proffitt and Wood and lead trial attorney for Mamaroneck
and
Fernanda Santos, Metro Reporter for the New York Times
and
Alan Levine, Special Counsel for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
-on the ruling that police in Mamaroneck harassed day laborers

Veni, Vidi, Vendy

Sean Basinski, Director of the Street Vendor Project
and
Thiru "Dosa Man" Kumar, vendor at Washington Square Park South at Sullivan Street
and
Samiul Haque Noor, from "Sammy's Halal" at 73rd Street and Broadway, Queens
-discuss "The Vendy Awards", given to the city's best street vendor.

There Goes the Neighborhood

William Julius Wilson ,Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University, and author, There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America(Knopf 2006)
-talks about class and race tension in Urban America

There Goes the Neighborhood, available for purchase at Amazon.com

And It Keeps Going...

Brian takes more calls from listeners on how diverse their neighborhoods are and whether they like it that way.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.