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Chrysler Dealers on the Chopping Block?

Local dealers may be especially hard-hit in the Chrysler bankruptcy. Mark Schienberg, president of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, discusses the road ahead. And Jeff Bennett, reporter for the Dow Jones News wires, is covering the story for the Wall Street Journal.

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Following Up: Too Big To Fail

Earlier this week on the BL Show, Citigroup chair Richard Parsons claimed that massive and complex financial institutions are necessary. Francesco Guerrera, U.S. finance and business editor for the Financial Times, reacts to that claim.

Hear the Richard Parsons interview on the BL Show 5/13/09

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High Functioning Alcoholics

Sarah Allen Benton, author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights, discusses how alcoholism may be more prevalent than we think and offers a window into the lives of high-functioning alcoholics. More info at High Functioning Alcoholic.com

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End-Of-Life Costs

In his recent interview with the New York Times's David Leonhardt, President Obama said that a key step to health care reform will be having a "very difficult democratic conversation" about the high cost of end-of-life care in the United States, which accounts for up to 80% of health care costs. Judy Bacharach, columnist at Obit Magazine and The Checkout Line, imagines what such a national conversation would look like.

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Forever Changed

Jennifer Senior, contributing editor to New York magazine, looks at how the economic crisis has altered spending habits – and brain chemistry.

"Recession Culture"

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Following Up: Talking Torture

Yesterday on the Brian Lehrer Show, former senator Bob Graham denied that he was briefed by the CIA on the use of extreme interrogation methods when he served on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was briefed, but was told the US wasn't using waterboarding. Jesselyn Radack, Director of Homeland Security for the Government Accountability Project, and Robert Baer, Time.com columnist, former CIA officer, and author of The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, discuss who knew what when, and what it means.

Listen to the Brian Lehrer Show interview with Bob Graham 5/14/09

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