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We’ll take listeners’ calls and talk about our mass transit past and our mass transit future and Lee Sander, Governor Spitzer’s new appointee to head the MTA. Also, find out about “Under the Radar” theater, before it gets big. Plus, listener's choice for the Democratic presidential candidate, and what do Ahmadinejad and Chavez really have in common?
Train of Thought
Lee Sander, CEO and Executive Director of the MTA
- discusses the future of mass transit in New York City.
See It First
Mark Russell, independent producer/curator working in New York City,
producer of the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival
and
Tarell McCraney, playwright, and Yale graduate student
- on the festival offering a sampling of up-and-coming theater artists from around the world
The festival runs from January 17-28, 2007. Tickets are available through The Public Theatre.
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
Francisco Rodriguez,
assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies at Wesleyan University and former chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly
and
Larry Birns,
founder and director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
and
Margarita Lopez-Maya,
professor of history at the Center for the Study of Development (CENDES) at the Central University of Venezuela
- discuss the recent visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Venezuela
Edwards, Obama, or Hillary?
Open Phones
- listeners cast their Brian Lehrer vote for the Democratic candidate for president
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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")
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