The Brian Lehrer Show

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

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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

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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.

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Open Phones: Hurricane Katrina

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

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