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Friday August 31, 2001

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Week of August 27, 2001

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10:00News Roundup

A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week’s top national and international news stories.

Guests

Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief, "The Wall Street Journal"

Karen Tumulty, reporter, "Time" magazine

Eleanor Clift, contributing editor for "Newsweek"

11:00Geraldine Brooks: "Year of Wonders" (Viking)

Journalist Geraldine Brooks discusses her first novel. It's based on the true story of the measures taken by the residents of a small 17th-century English town to protect themselves -- and others -- from the plague.

Guests

Geraldine Brooks, also author of the novel "Year of Wonders" and the nonfiction books "Nine Parts of Desire" and "Foreign Correspondence."

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