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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, January 22, 2007
  • Sudanese vendors in southern Khartoum 29 December 2006. (Getty Images)
    Sudanese vendors in southern Khartoum 29 December 2006. (Getty Images)

    Divestment for Darfur

    While genocide is taking place in Darfur, should American pension funds and endowments stop investing in companies that do business in Sudan? A divestment movement is gaining steam, but some in the business lobby oppose it. Plus, Monday Morning Politics with the Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks and Eoin Callan from the Financial Times, and the crackdown on mixtapes.

Monday Morning Politics: The Homeland

Eoin Callan, Washington reporter with the Financial Times

Monday Morning Politics: The War

Thomas Ricks, Washington Post reporter and author, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin Press HC, 2006)
- reviews the news and previews the State of the Union address

Event
Panel Discussion on the Merits of the War in Iraq
with Thomas Ricks, Richard Perle, Robert MacNeil and Martin Smith at the 92nd St. Y
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007, 8:00-10:00PM
Tickets are $25

Mixed Up Mixed Tapes

Kelefa Sanneh, pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition
- discusses unlicensed compilations, or mixtapes, that are vital part of the hip-hop world, and the copyright laws that prohibit them

Divest from Darfur?

Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature at Smith College
and
William A. Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council
and
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, senior research associate at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.
- discuss Sudan and the divestment movement here in America

Open Phones

Listeners call in to talk about what it is like to be a woman in charge outside the home and what it will be like for Hillary Clinton running for president.



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Slideluck Potshow

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Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

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Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.