Brian Lehrer

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Various versions of a Boycott Israel petition are circulating on the internet and elsewhere. Some target products made in Israel, others are aimed at any U.S. company that does business with Israel. WNYC's Brian Lehrer opposes these campaigns, and finds one in particular very disturbing.

Brian: ...

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Anchor: In politics, they sometimes use the word hitchhiking to describe the act of attaching old agendas onto new scenarios. WNYC's Brian Lehrer is here now with A Hitchhiker's Guide To The War on Terrorism.

Pick your least favorite interest group and you'll probably find it ...

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Today at the Javitz Center, the public gets to react to the six official proposals for redeveloping ground zero, released this week by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. WNYC's Brian Lehrer says if you re planning to go, here are eight questions you might want ...

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Brian: All this whining by baseball fans over the all star game tie. Why not accept the fact that the best players from the american and national leagues played a highly entertaining game for 3 and a half hours, played two overtime innings, used up ...

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WNYC talk show host Brian Lehrer has noticed a pattern in the news. Whenever he takes a vacation, the most memorable stories of the year always seem to break. Brian says last week was no exception.

BRIAN: This time, I was off a measly five work ...

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ANCHOR LEAD: President Bush, who long opposed the idea of a homeland security department, now says that's the best way to prevent terrorism. If that seems like an unusual one-eighty, WNYC's Brian Lehrer says it was actually typical of this week's news.


BRIAN: remember the Woody ...

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Carl McCall has won the backing of the New York State Democratic Party in his campaign for governor. But his endorsement was upstaged by the decision of his rival, Andrew Cuomo, to skip the party convention altogether and go right onto the September primary.

WNYC's ...

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It's been more than a week now since the American cardinals released the communiqué on sexual abuse following their two-day summit at the Vatican. And a lot has been said in the media and in catholic circles about how close to a zero tolerance policy the ...

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Anchor: In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, each side clings to the memory of its past sufferings to justify retaliation. In this commentary, WNYC's Brian Lehrer says both sides are using the past the obliterate the future.

Brian: In 1986, author and holocaust survivor Elli Weisel won the ...

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It's hard to find much new to say on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Israelis harp on the evils of terrorism, the Palestinians on the evils of occupation. The language of blame predominates, and is numbingly predictable. But the new school panel had at least ...

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But wnyc's Brian Lehrer has been wondering about the other part of the appeals court bombshell: the overturning of the obstruction of justice convictions of all three defendants, that seems to have left the blue wall of silence in tact.

As it turns out, the prosecutor ...

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But wnyc's Brian Lehrer has been wondering about the other part of the appeals court bombshell: the overturning of the obstruction of justice convictions of all three defendants, that seems to have left the blue wall of silence in tact.

As it turns out, the prosecutor ...

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ANCHOR: It’s back to the drawing board for the idea of a statue to represent the three white firefighters who hoisted an american flag at ground zero after the world trade center attacks. The controversial design that depicted the firefighters as white black and latino ...

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ANCHOR: In these last few days before new year’s, many commentators make predictions of things they expect to see in the new year. but wnyc’s brian lehrer has an ANTI-prediction: something he’s not SURE whether to expect in 2002.


BRIAN: I’m not sure whether to expect ...

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Some new yorkers are still in shock that a billionaire media mogul with no government experience has been elected mayor. But wnyc’s brian lehrer says if you’re one of those people, look on the bright side.

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On the morning after the election, an unhappy ...

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One of the biggest challenges for mayor-elect mike bloomberg, as for any mayor, will be to preside successfully over the nypd. But wnyc’s brian lehrer says with hard economic times and new security demands, it will be particularly difficult in 2002.


ANCHOR: wnyc’s brian lehrer. You ...

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ANCHOR: the bush administration says it will extend a health insurance program for poor children to cover unborn children, beginning at conception. advocates on both sides of the abortion issue argue see it as a way to define life as beginning at conception under the ...

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The andrew cuomo-carl mcall race for the democratic nomination for governor next year is off to a racially-charged start. that’s bad news for a party still recovering from the divisive ending of the Mark Green - Fernando Ferrer mayoral campaign. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer says maybe ...

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The smart thing is: he learned from history. remember 1989 when Jim Florio had just been elected and he found out the state’s budget deficit was much worse than he had been told by the outgoing republican governor? That was the reason for the now-infamous ...

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