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Tuesday January 11, 2005

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10:00Iraq Elections

Military leaders forecast an upsurge in violence in Iraq as the January 30th election date approaches. We'll talk about security concerns before and after elections.

Guests

Air Force Brigadier General Erv Lessel, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Communication by phone from Baghdad

Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor of foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University. His many books include,"The Choice," "The Grand Failure" and "The Grand Chessboard," and "Second Chance." He served as national security adviser to former President Jimmy Carter.

11:00Susan Tyler Hitchcock: "Mad Mary Lamb" (W.W. Norton)

Lovers of nineteenth century British literature know Mary Lamb as the sister of noted essayist Charles Lamb, as co-author of "Tales from Shakespeare," and as a woman who stabbed her own mother to death. Author Susan Tyler Hitchcock tells us more about Mary Lamb, her place in the the Romantic literary circle, and about how her crime shaped the rest of her life.

Guests

Susan Tyler Hitchcock, freelance writer and editor

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