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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 31, 2007

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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  • Wholly Moses

    We revisit the legacy of Robert Moses as three New York City museums are collaborating to remember New York’s 20th Century Master Builder. We ask what lessons we can learn from Moses’ successes and failures with guests ranging from critical biographer Robert Caro to activist Majora Carter. Plus, congressman Gregory Meeks talks race and we hear a preview of the New York State budget.

Teaching Tom

Gregory Meeks, Congressman (D- NY 6) reacts to Congressman Tom Tancredo's comments about the Congressional Black Caucus.

Hardt of the Matter

Bob Hardt, executive producer and political director, New York 1, previews the New York State budget.

Child's Play

David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author, The Power of Play (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2006), and Susan Solomon, architectural historian and author, American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space (University Press of New England, 2005), discuss rethinking playgrounds.

Imagination Playground, currently in development and slated to begin construction in the fall of 2007

Wholly Moses

A new joint exhibition at three New York City museums looks at the legacy of Robert Moses. We'll hear from guests Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf, 1974)
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Hilary Ballon, architectural historian and professor at Columbia University, curator of "Robert Moses and the Modern City" exhibitions and Kenneth T. Jackson , Jacques Barzun professor of history and the social sciences at Columbia University, co-editors of the publication that accompanies the exhibitions, Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (W.W. Norton, 2007)
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Majora Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, shares her views of Moses' legacy and her views on development, and listeners calls on development in their neighborhoods.

Robert Moses and the Modern City will be on view at The Museum of the City of New York, The Queens Museum and The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Events
Majora Carter will participate in a roundtable discussion at a symposium "Learning from Robert Moses" on Thursday, February 1st at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 5:30 -7:00 PM. Advanced reservations are required and there is an admission charge.

Robert Caro will speak about Robert Moses on February 11th at 3:00PM at The Museum of the City of New York.

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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.

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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.

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