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Wednesday April 27, 2005

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10:00New Government in Iraq

Interim Iraqi leaders may have settled on a plan for distributing cabinet posts among the competing political factions. We'll hear several perspectives on post war reconstruction challenges in Iraq and implications for U.S.policy.

Guests

Dan Senor, former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and founder of Senor Strategies.

Col. Thomas X. Hammes, U.S. Marine Corps-Retired, and author of "The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century"

David Phillips, visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, executive director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Humanity, and author of "Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco."

11:00Floyd Abrams: "Speaking Freely" (Viking)

A leading advocate of the First Amendment talks about some of the many high-profile cases in which he's defended freedom of speech.

Guests

Floyd Abrams, partner at the law firm Cahill, Gordon and Reindel, LLP.

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