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The Brian Lehrer Show / February 21, 2007

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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    Ernest Negotiations

    The police have one; teachers have one; firefighters, too, but in New York City, public school principals have been working without a contract for three years. On our next program, the new head of the principals union, Ernest Logan, on why principals and the City may finally come to terms. Then, the religious experiences of black women.

Principled Choices

Ernest Logan, president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators discusses his goals for the Council and the negotiations over their contract

Whistle While You Work

Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker.com and author of the book by the same name and Marian Bateman consultant at the David Allen Company tell us how we can work more efficiently and gives us the tricks of the trade

Lifehacker is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Loosed Women

Marla Frederick, assistant professor of religion and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (University of California Press, 2003), and Jacqueline Grant, director of the Black Women in Church and Society Program at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, speak about how black women express spirituality.

Open Phones

Listeners weigh in on the perils of email communication--missed nuances, misunderstandings, and flame wars.

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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.