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Tuesday October 5, 2004

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10:00Afghanistan Elections

A look at Afghanistan's national elections scheduled for Saturday: the candidates, the voters, the issues, and the impact of deadly violence carried out by both the Taliban and local militias.

Guests

Radek Sikorski, resident fellow and executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute

Ishaq Shahryar, former Ambassador from Afghanistan to the U.S.

Barnett Rubin, director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and former adviser to the U.N. on Afghanistan

11:00Daniel Libeskind: "Breaking Ground" (Riverhead)

Diane talks with the architect selected last year as the master planner for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site. In his new memoir, he explains how he developed his approach to design and architecture, growing up in Poland, Israel and New York City.

Guests

Daniel Libeskind, principal design architect in Studio Daniel Libeskind. His projects incude the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England.

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