The Brian Lehrer Show

A civilian security specialist checks over equipment for Iraqi police on Nov. 24, 2006. (Staff Sgt. DeNoris A. Mickle)

Taking the Hill

Monday, December 11, 2006

From the battlefield to the halls of power, we will meet a brand new member of Congress who is an Iraq war veteran and hear clips from a new documentary about the coalition of Iraq vet candidates known as “Band of Brothers 2006.” Plus, gender confusion in children and Monday Morning Politics

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"The Way Forward"

Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Daily Star, Beirut's English language daily, and director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut
and
Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
- what's wrong and right with the Iraq Study Group report

Leslie Gelb's article on the Iraq Study Group

Yard Work

Matthew Schuerman, commercial real estate and economic development reporter for the New York Observer
- tells us about developments in the Atlantic Yards project

Pink and Blue

James Braly, storytelling performer, two-time winner of The Moth GrandSLAM competition and author of the forthcoming theatrical monologue and book, Life in a Marital Institution (Algonquin)
and
Dr. Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, professor of clinical pschology in psychiatry at Columbia University; specializes in research and clinic psychobiology of gender and sexuality
- on gender identity issues and children

You Are What You Eat

Nina Planck, former director of New York's Greenmarket and author, Real Food: What to Eat and Why (Bloomsbury, 2006)
-talks about eating healthy in the wake of food poisoning scares