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The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, June 16, 2005
  • Ivan Watson, NPR Foreign Correspondent, Istanbul (NPR/Jacques Coughlin)

    Reading Blogs In Tehran

    With a population that is 70 percent under age 25 (and a voting age of 15), Iran’s younger voters will play a big role in elections there on Friday. Many of them are turning to blogs to avoid the mullahs’ stifling grip on public discourse.

Live from Iran

Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian blogger, writes "Editor: Myself: A weblog on Iran, technology and pop culture"
» Hossein's weblog
and
Ivan Watson, NPR Correspondent (in Tehran for election)
» Ivan Watson's bio
and
Roya Boroumand, Historian, director of the Bouroumand Foundation for Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
- with analysis of the upcoming elections in Iran

What's Good for the Goose

Lee Hall, legal director of Friends of Animals
-says foie gras is cruel, anyway you cut, spread, or spoon it
» Friends of Animals
and
Michael Ginor, co-founder, co-owner, and president of Hudson Valley Foie Gras
-says"inhumane" is a relative term
» Hudson Valley Foie Gras

Book Country

Christopher Hitchens,(photo right) book review columnist for The Atlantic Monthly, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and author, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Harper Collins, 2005)
- on current events in the Middle East as well as American's founding father
» Christopher Hitchens' website

Prison's Other Victims

Elizabeth Gaynes, Director of the Osborne Association, a group
» Osborne Association
and
Liz Garbus,Director and producer of Xiara's Song, a documentary about children of incarcerated parents, to be broadcast on Cinemax on June 19
» Xiara's Song website
-discuss the impact of the rate of children's parents in prison

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ICANN, You Can…

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Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.