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The Brian Lehrer Show / August 29, 2007

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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  • Jamie Tarabay, NPR Baghdad Bureau Chief
    Jamie Tarabay, NPR Baghdad Bureau Chief

    The Art of Education Spending

    Public school principals are getting more discretion on what subjects to spend their money on. How will the new system affect arts education now that the principals will be graded on more than just math and science? NPR Baghdad correspondent Jamie Tarabay takes calls on the state of the Iraq war. Also, we examine anonymous gay culture, and take listener calls on Hurricane Katrina, two years later.

Reporting Stateside

NPR's Baghdad bureau chief Jamie Tarabay stops by while in the U.S. to talk about her posting in the Iraq war zone.

Jamie Tarabay’s NPR profile

Foot Tapping and Anonymous Gay Culture

Republican U.S. Senator Larry Craig pleaded guilty to a charge involving lewd public behavior in a restroom at a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. The incident happened in June, the report came out Monday. What does the story say about anonymous gay encounters, and why do these meetings still happen in the internet age? New York magazine writer David Amsden and William Eskridge, a law professor at Yale University, look at the issue and hear listener's stories.

The police report about the arrest of Larry Craig

Arts AND Sciences?

Richard Kessler, executive director of The Center for Arts Education, and Dr. Sharon Dunn, senior instructional manager for arts education in the Department of Education's Office of Arts and Special Projects, discuss NYC public school arts education and how it might be affected by the principals’ new spending authority.

Open Phones: Hurricane Katrina

We take listener calls about the state of New Orleans, two years after the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

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.

Judge Sotomayor

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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