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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 11, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, December 11, 2006
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  • A civilian security specialist checks over equipment for Iraqi police on Nov. 24, 2006.
    A civilian security specialist checks over equipment for Iraqi police on Nov. 24, 2006. (Staff Sgt. DeNoris A. Mickle)

    Taking the Hill

    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

"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

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.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

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.