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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, May 11, 2007
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    A bicycle on the subway (moriza/flickr)

    You've Got Mail Trouble!

    Email has grown so rapidly that no one has had time to set the rules. Determined to clear up this confusion, a New York Times editor and a book editor have come up with a guide for email etiquette and restraint: The dos and dont's in messages and when to write an email at all. Plus: presidential historian Michael Beschloss and the next installment of our transportation series, Anything But the Car: Biking.

Hail to the Chief

Michael Beschloss, presidential historian and author, 8Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 (Simon and Schuster) talks about what makes a president great.

Presidential Courage is available for purchase at Amazon.com

You've Got Email Trouble!

David Shipley, deputy editorial page editor and Op-Ed page editor of the New York Times and Will Schwalbe, editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books, take your calls on embarrassing email disasters and talk about their new book, Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home .

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home (Knopf) is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Anything But The Car: Biking

Taliah Lempert, bike enthusiast and full-time bicycle artist, talks about her favorite mode of transportation as part of our series on alternatives to the car.

See Taliah's bike paintings online

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.