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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says recent calls for swift U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq motivate insurgents. We'll talk about the current political and military debate over a possible U.S. exit strategy.
Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration
Anthony Cordesman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Frank Newport, editor and chief, The Gallup Poll
Thomas Barnett, former senior strategic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War College, served from October 2001 to June 2003 as assistant for strategic futures in the Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation.
William Shakespeare is the author of some of the most important plays and poems in the English language. But he left no letters or diaries revealing his private thoughts and feelings. This new biography draws on the historical record to imagine the life and times of the bard.
Peter Ackroyd, author of "London: The Biography" and "Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination"; biographies of Chaucer, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Sir Thomas More; and several novels.