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John DeanGrand Old Party-Pooper
There are currently nine men running for the Republican presidential nomination. Ex-Republican and Watergate-era White House counsel John Dean says electing any of them would be a bad choice. He maintains they would all be forced to carry on many of the current administration's failing policies. Plus, a closer look at a cosmetic surgery popular among many Asian American girls, reaction to the striking down of the law requiring fast-food restaurants to post calorie contents on their menus, UFT President Randi Weingarten on pricipal independence and test scores, and we begin to assemble our Democracy Club.
Schools In
A week into the school year and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and chair of the Municipal Labor Committee, discusses principal independence and test scores.
Food for Thought
Diane Brady, senior writer for Business Week and Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition food studies and public health at New York University and the author of What to Eat (North Point Press, 2007), new in paperback, discusses the striking down of a law that required fast-food chains to post calorie counts on their menus.
Eyeing a Western Aesthetic
Dr. Edmund Kwan, a plastic surgeon from New York, looks at whether Asian women get eyelid surgery so they can look more "Western."
Republican No More
Thirty-five years after Watergate John Dean, White House legal counsel to President Nixon, comments on the current struggle between the executive branch and Congress, and discusses his new book Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Viking Adult, 2007).
Broken Government is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
John Dean will be signing books tonight at the Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble, 66th St. & Broadway, at 7:30PM.
Open Phones: Join Our Democracy Club
We turn to our listeners to find a group of undecided voters that we can check in with regularly over the course of the presidential elections.
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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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