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Listening to the Placebo Effect
Last night eight Democratic presidential hopefuls met onstage in the first debate of the 2008 campaign. We’ll play excerpts, get insider reaction, and take your calls. Also: a psychotherapist talks about the medicalization of depression and his experience in a clinical trial.
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Dems Debate
Donna Brazile, senior Democratic strategist and former campaign manager for Al Gore, Gerson Borrero, columnist at El Diario La Prensa, Hank Sheinkopf, New York-based political consultant, and Arianna Huffington, editor of HuffingtonPost.com, react to the first Democratic debate for the 2008 presidential election.
MSNBC video excerpts of the debate
Full transcript of the debate from the NYTimes.com
When Being Blue Leads to Seeing Green
Antidepressants are a global, multi-billion dollar a year industry. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg learned this first-hand when he enrolled himself in a clinical trial--and was told that according to the admissions criteria he had major depression. He wrote about his experiences in the May Harper's Magazine.
Film Study
Sydney Meeks, president of the Tribeca Film Institute, Eva Duarte, Tribeca Film Fellow, age 19, attending City-As-School, and James Duarte, Tribeca Film Fellow, age 16, attending Theater Arts Production Company Middle/High School, talk about the Tribeca Film Fellows Program, which gives a group of New York City teenagers exposure to the film industry.
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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.- Comments [41]
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.
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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")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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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